HYBRID-CAPTURE SEQUENCING FOR DETERMINING IMMUNE CELL CLONALITY
In an aspect, there is provided, a method of capturing a population of T-Cell receptor and/or immunoglobulin sequences with variable regions within a patient sample, said method comprising: extracting/preparing DNA fragments from the patient sample; ligating a nucleic acid adapter to the DNA fragments, the nucleic acid adapter suitable for recognition by a pre-selected nucleic acid probe; capturing DNA fragments existing in the patient sample using a collection of nucleic acid hybrid capture probes, wherein each capture probe is designed to hybridize to a known V gene segment and/or a J gene segment within the T cell receptor and/or immunoglobulin genomic loci.