Method of intrafamily fragment analysis of the T cell receptor .

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A method and kit are provided for quantitatively determining the length distributions of the third complementarity determining region (CDR3) of the T cell receptor (TCR) .alpha. and .beta. chains from human lymphocytes in a tissue sample or in the peripheral blood.

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