Table 3

Evaluation of the sensitivity of the whole seminested PCR protocol and relative efficiency of 5 primer pairs

Number of relevant T cells		TCRBV clones
Number of relevant T cells		TCRBV 3	TCRBV 5.2	TCRBV 16	TCRBV 20	TCRBV 21
100	+	+	+	+	+
50	+	+	+	+	+
10	+	+	+	+	+
5	−	−	+	−	+