Evolutionary relationships of class II major-histocompatibility-complex genes in mammals.

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a040622

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Evolutionary relationships of class II major-histocompatibility-complex genes in mammals.

Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Nov 1990

Hughes A L, Nei M

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The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecule consists of noncovalently associated alpha and beta chains. In mammals studied so far, the class II MHC can be divided into a number of regions, each containing one or more alpha-chain genes (A genes) and beta-chain genes (B genes), and...

Topics

Amino Acids
Animals
Base Sequence
Biological Evolution
Genes, MHC Class II
Genetic Variation
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Phylogeny
Pseudogenes
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid

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