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Prevalence and evolutionary origins of autoimmune susceptibility alleles in natural mouse populations.
Genes and immunity - 1 Jan 2008
Limaye N, Belobrajdic K A, Wandstrat A E, Bonhomme F, Edwards S V, Wakeland E K
Abstract excerpt
The evolutionary origin of genetic diversity in the SLAM/CD2 gene cluster, implicated in autoimmune lupus susceptibility in mice, was investigated by sequence analysis of exons from six members of the cluster in 48 wild mouse samples derived from the global mouse population. A total of 80 coding region SNPs were identified among the six genes analyzed, indicating that this gene cluster is highly polymorphic in...
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