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The diversity of major histocompatibility complex class II DRB1 gene in sheep breeds from Xinjiang, China.
Tissue antigens - 1 Jan 2015
Polat M, Aida Y, Takeshima S-N, Aniwashi J, Halik M
Abstract excerpt
Exon 2 of the ovine leukocyte antigen OLA-DRB1 locus was examined in sheep from the Xinjiang Karakul Ram and Bashibai populations, and three generations of hybrids were derived from a cross between Bashibai and Altai Argali wild sheep. This identified 12 novel alleles and 30 previously reported alleles. A neighbor-joining tree of the amino acid sequences of these 42 alleles revealed allelic clusters shared across...
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