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Genetic resistance to flaviviruses.
Advances in virus research - 1 Jan 2003
Brinton Margo A, Perelygin Andrey A
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Resistance to flavivirus-induced disease in mice was first discovered in the 1920s and was subsequently shown to be controlled by the resistant allele of a single dominant autosomal gene. While the majority of current laboratory mouse stains have a homozygous-susceptible phenotype, the resistant allele has been found to segregate in wild mouse populations in many different parts of the world. Resistance is...
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