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Owl monkey MHC-DRB exon 2 reveals high similarity with several HLA-DRB lineages.
Immunogenetics - 1 Jul 2006
Suárez Carlos F, Patarroyo Manuel E, Trujillo Esperanza, Estupiñán Mónica, Baquero Juan E, Parra Carlos, Rodriguez Raúl
Abstract excerpt
One hundred and ten novel MHC-DRB gene exon 2 nucleotide sequences were sequenced in 96 monkeys from three owl monkey species (67 from Aotus nancymaae, 30 from Aotus nigriceps and 13 from Aotus vociferans). Owl monkeys, like humans, have high MHC-DRB allele polymorphism, revealing a striking similarity with several human allele lineages in the peptide binding region and presenting major convergence with DRB...
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