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Lyt-2+ T cells constitute a significantly greater proportion of the total peripheral T-cell population in C57BL mice than in BALB/c and other mouse strains. The inheritance of this differential representation of Lyt-2− vs. Lyt-2+ T cells was studied by two-color immunofluorescence analysis of peripheral T cell subsets in BALB/c, C57BL, F1 and F2 generations, and in CXB recombinant inbred strains. It was shown that the C57BL phenotype (low Lyt-2−/Lyt-2+ ratio) is a dominant Mendelian character. Studies of subpopulations of thymocytes and of early thymus emigrants indicate that the representation of mature Lyt-2− and Lyt-2+ T cells is influenced by mechanisms of selection or differential turnover in the peripheral lymphoid organs, but that thymic and prethymic influences may also play a role.
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Kraal, G., Weissman, I.L. & Butcher, E.C. Genetic control of T-Cell subset representation in inbred mice. Immunogenetics 18, 585–592 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00345966
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