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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Genes Immun. 2012 May 17;13(5):399–410. doi: 10.1038/gene.2012.16

Table 2.

Distribution of hypermutated VH genes in hNSG mice

B cell subpopulations Homology to germline sequence
100–99%
99–94%
≤94%
# (%) Sequences1 nt/aa mutations2
# (%) Sequences nt/aa mutations
# (%) Sequences nt/aa mutations
FR CDR FR CDR FR CDR
Early Immature 36 (60%) 0.46/0.32 0.07/0.05 20 (33%) 1.77/1.14 1.18/0.79 4 (7%) 0.44/0.23 0.53/0.30
Immature 26 (67%) 0.68/0.38 0.16/0.08 8 (21%) 0.97/0.57 0.51/0.32 5 (13%) 1.46/0.86 1.14/0.54
New Emigrant 33 (66%) 0.30/0.22 0.18/0.08 17 (34%) 1.56/1.14 1.14/0.72 0 (0%) - -
Mature 50 (85%) 0.60/0.38 0.17/0.10 9 (15%) 0.36/0.24 0.14/0.05 0 (0%) - -
Mature (CD5+) 41 (84%) 0.38/0.23 1.18/0.79 8 (16%) 0.68/0.49 0.47/0.30 0 (0%) - -
1

Total number and corresponding percentage (in parentheses) of total sequences per B cell subset

2

Total number of nucleotide/amino acid changes in the Framework region (FR) and H-CDR3 (CDR) regions per VH sequence