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Sequence and diversity of MHC DQA and DQB genes of the owl monkey Aotus nancymaae.
Immunogenetics - 1 Jun 2000
Diaz D, Naegeli M, Rodriguez R, Nino-Vasquez J J, Moreno A, Patarroyo M E, Pluschke G, Daubenberger C A
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The New World primate Aotus nancymaae has been recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a model for evaluation of malaria vaccine candidates, given its susceptibility to experimental infection with the human malaria parasites Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax. We present here the nucleotide sequences of the complete cDNA of MHC-DQA1 and of the polymorphic exon 2 segments of MHC-DQB1/DQB2. In...
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