Overdispersed molecular clock at the major histocompatibility complex loci.

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The extent of amino acid differences of major histocompatibility complex molecules within species is unusually high, consistent with the finding that some pairs of alleles have persisted for more than ten million years and the view that the polymorphism has been maintained by natural selection. The disparity between synonymous and non-synonymous substitutions in the antigen recognition site, however, suggests...

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