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In the nose of the beholder: are olfactory influences on human mate choice driven by variation in immune system genes or sex hormone levels?

Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) - 1 Nov 2010

Roberts Thomas, Roiser Jonathan P

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The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) is the most polymorphic region of the genome, coding for proteins that mediate human immune response. This polymorphism may be maintained by balancing selection and certain populations show deviations from expected gene frequencies. Supporting this hypothesis, studies into olfactory preferences have suggested that females prefer the scent of males with dissimilar HLA to their...

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PMID: 20943935
DOI: 10.1258/ebm.2010.010112

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