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Molecular analyses of five new chimpanzee MHC class I alleles: implications for differences between evolutional mechanisms of HLA-A, -B, and -C loci.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 22 Jul 1999
Matsui M, Machida S, Feinstone S M, Akatsuka T
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In order to study the origin of the polymorphism of MHC class I molecules, we have cloned and sequenced five new Patr-A, -B, and -C loci alleles from two chimpanzees. Previous studies of sequence comparison between Patr and HLA class I alleles revealed that many of the sequence motifs were shared and the origin of class I molecules predated the divergence of chimpanzees and humans. These findings are confirmed by...
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