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Profiling the diversity of innate lymphoid cells

Genome-wide transcriptional profiling of tissue-resident innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) has provided important insight not only into their developmental relationships and phenotypic plasticity but also into previously unknown functions.

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Figure 1: Transcriptional signatures of ILC subsets.

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Diefenbach, A. Profiling the diversity of innate lymphoid cells. Nat Immunol 16, 222–224 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.3107

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