Table 1.

The clinical characteristics of samples with low, moderate and high TCR repertoire diversities

Diversity	Low		Moderate		High
Sample	WB	DBS	WB	DBS	WB	DBS
Duplicate sequence repeatability (R2)	0.994	0.991	0.993	0.956	0.930	0.699
Unique CDR3	43,653	5327	38,431	3820	25,118	3208
D50	0.3	1.1	2.7	7.6	14.5	6.8
Diversity Index	15.8	13.2	20.6	16.8	27.1	11.1
R2 of regression between DBS and WB		0.989		0.865		0.806
Top 50 dominant clones (%)a		94%		98%		82%
Top 100 dominant clones (%)a		92%		87%		74%

WB whole blood, DBS dry blood spot, R² coefficient of determination calculated by linear regression

^aThe percentage of TCR dominant clones from whole blood could be found from DSB examination