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Paternally inherited HLA alleles are associated with women's choice of male odor.

Nature genetics - 1 Feb 2002

Jacob Suma, McClintock Martha K, Zelano Bethanne, Ober Carole

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The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a source of unique individual odors that influence individual recognition, mating preferences, nesting behavior and selective block of pregnancy in animals. Such phenomena have been difficult to study in humans, because the human leukocyte antigen (HLA, human MHC) loci are the most polymorphic loci in the human genome, with the potential to generate millions of unique...

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PMID: 11799397
DOI: 10.1038/ng830

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