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HLA-G and immune tolerance in pregnancy.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology - 1 May 2005
Hunt Joan S, Petroff Margaret G, McIntire Ramsey H, Ober Carole
Abstract excerpt
Multiple mechanisms underlie the surprising willingness of mothers to tolerate genetically different fetal tissues during pregnancy. Chief among these is the choice of HLA-G, a gene with few alleles, rather than the highly polymorphic HLA-A and -B genes, for expression by the placental cells that...
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