Fig. 5.
A 5-month transition in the distribution of HCDR3 lengths.
Shown are mean HCDR3 lengths in VDJCμ transcripts from 34 individual fetal liver samples ranging in age from 8 to 28 weeks' gestation, open circles11; 138 individual samples of cord blood from premature and term individuals, closed circles (this study); and 32 individual samples of peripheral blood from infants ranging in age from 2 weeks to 6 months of age, open squares.11 For this cross-sectional study, the solid line represents the best linear fit and the dotted lines denote 5% and 95% confidence limits for the distribution of lengths over time (from Shiokawa et al11and Figure 1 above).