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. 2016 Apr 21;78(8):1237–1244. doi: 10.1292/jvms.15-0688

Table 1. Primers used for the detection of clonal rearrangement of IgH and TCRγ genesa).

Reaction number Product Primer specificity Primer sequence (5′ −3′)b)
1 Cµ Cµ TTC CCC CTC ATC ACC TGT GA
Cµ GGT TGT TGA TTG CAC TGA GG
2 IgH major VH CAG CCT GAG AGC CGA GGA CAC
JH TGA GGA GAC GGT GAC CAG GGT
3 IgH minor VH CAG CCT GAG AGC CGA GGA CAC
JH TGA GGA CAC AAA GAG TGA GG
4 TCRγ JH ACC CTG AGA ATT GTG CCA GG
JH GTT ACT ATA AAC CTG GTA AC
VH TCT GGG A/GTG TAC/T TAC TGT GCT GTC TGG
5 IgH VH GMC GVT TCA CCA TCT CCA RRG
JH TGA RGA GAC RGT GAC CWG GGT
JH GGA CAC GAA GAS TGA GGT GCC
6 TCRγ TGK TGC AGA ARC TGG AGA AGA
GCA CTG TGC CAG GAC CAA ATA

a) IgH: immunoglobulin heavy chain, TCRγ: T-cell receptor γ chain. b) K: guanine (G) + thymine (T), R: adenine (A) + G, M: A + cytosine (C), W: A + T, S: C + G, V: A + C + G. Reaction Numbers 1−4: Primers reported by Burnett et al. [4], Reaction Numbers 5 −6: Primers reported by Valli et al. [27]