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Thymic signatures of tailored peripheral functions

Gene profiling by the Immunological Genome Project consortium has identified distinct transcriptional programs that determine the migratory and functional fates of emerging γδ thymocytes.

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Figure 1: The intrathymic developmental programming of γδ T cells.

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Bonneville, M. Thymic signatures of tailored peripheral functions. Nat Immunol 13, 431–433 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.2287

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