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Genetic variation and responses to vaccines.
Animal health research reviews - 1 Dec 2004
Glass Elizabeth J
Abstract excerpt
Disease is a major source of economic loss to the livestock industry. Understanding the role of genetic factors in immune responsiveness and disease resistance should provide new approaches to the control of disease through development of safe synthetic subunit vaccines and breeding for disease resistance. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) has been an important candidate locus for immune responsiveness...
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