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Predicting population coverage of T-cell epitope-based diagnostics and vaccines.
BMC bioinformatics - 17 Mar 2006
Bui Huynh-Hoa, Sidney John, Dinh Kenny, Southwood Scott, Newman Mark J, Sette Alessandro
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: T cells recognize a complex between a specific major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecule and a particular pathogen-derived epitope. A given epitope will elicit a response only in individuals that express an MHC molecule capable of binding that particular epitope. MHC molecules are extremely polymorphic and over a thousand different human MHC (HLA) alleles are known. A disproportionate amount of...
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