Article
Evidence for an additional cattle DQB locus.
Immunogenetics - 1 Sept 1999
Gelhaus A, Förster B, Horstmann R D
Abstract excerpt
Studying the genetic polymorphism of the major histocompatibility complex class II genes in cattle, we identified a sequence (KUH1) which resembles those encoding class II beta chains. The gene was shown to be transcribed in peripheral blood leukocytes. Sequence comparisons, Southern blot, and phylogenetic analyses indicate that (1) KUH1 represents a distinct DQB locus, which we propose to designate BoLA-DQB5,...
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