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Common HLA alleles associated with health, but not with facial attractiveness.

PloS one - 25 Jul 2007

Coetzee Vinet, Barrett Louise, Greeff Jaco M, Henzi S Peter, Perrett David I, Wadee Ahmed A

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Three adaptive hypotheses have been proposed to explain the link between the human leucocyte antigen (hla) genes, health measures and facial attractiveness: inbreeding avoidance, heterozygote advantage and frequency-dependent selection. This paper reports findings that support a new hypothesis relating HLA to health. We suggest a new method to quantify the level of heterozygosity. HLA heterozygosity did not...

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PMID: 17653267
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000640
PMCID: PMC1919430

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