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Genetic organization of the human MHC class III region.
Frontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library - 1 Aug 2001
Milner C M, Campbell R D
Abstract excerpt
The human major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region, encompasses over 4 Mb of DNA on the short arm of chromosome 6 and is traditionally divided into the class I, class II and class III regions. The MHC has now been entirely sequenced and ~220 genes have been defined of which ~62 are in the class III region. It is becoming clear that many of the latter encode proteins that are...
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