Chronic infection control relies on T cells with lower foreign antigen binding strength generated by N-nucleotide diversity

• Hassan Jamaleddine ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hassan Jamaleddine, Dakota Rogers

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Dakota Rogers ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hassan Jamaleddine, Dakota Rogers

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, McGill University Research Centre on Complex Traits, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Geneviève Perreault,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation McGill University Research Centre on Complex Traits, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Jérémy Postat,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, McGill University Research Centre on Complex Traits, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Dhanesh Patel,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, McGill University Research Centre on Complex Traits, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Judith N. Mandl ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: judith.mandl@mcgill.ca (JNM); anmar.khadra@mcgill.ca (AK)

  ¶‡ JNM and AK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, McGill University Research Centre on Complex Traits, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6512-3437

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• Anmar Khadra

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: judith.mandl@mcgill.ca (JNM); anmar.khadra@mcgill.ca (AK)

  ¶‡ JNM and AK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8228-9914

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