Tumors from colorectal cancer (CRC) are generally immunogenic and commonly infiltrated with T-lymphocytes. However, the details of the adaptive immune reaction to these tumors are poorly understood. We have accrued both colon tumor samples and adjacent healthy mucosal samples from 15 CRC patients to study lymphocytes infiltrating these tissues. We apply a method for detailed sequencing of T-cell receptor (TCR) sequences from tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in CRC tumors at high throughput to probe T-cell clones in comparison to the TCRs from adjacent healthy mucosal tissue. In parallel, we captured TIL counts using standard immunohistochemistry. The variation in diversity of the TIL repertoire was far wider than the
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