Figure 1.
Evidence of intraclonal heterogeneity in IgVH genes of monoclonal B-cell PTLDs. Sequence alignments of the IgVH clones derived from PTLD cases 3459, 3518, 3528, 3522, and 2890. The sequences of clones were aligned and compared with the most homologous germ-line IgVH, D, and JH sequences. Identity with the most homologous germ-line sequence is indicated by dashes. Each mutation is indicated by the appropriate nucleotide: replacements mutations by uppercase letters and silent mutations by lowercase letters; Δ symbol indicates nucleotide deletion. N-additions between IgVH and D, as well as between D and JH segments, are shown for each sequence. CDR indicates complementarity determining region; FR, framework region.