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Establishment of six homozygous MHC-B haplotype populations associated with susceptibility to Marek's disease in Chinese specific pathogen-free BWEL chickens.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2015
Gao Caixia, Han Lingxia, Han Jianlin, Liu Jiasen, Jiang Qian, Guo Dongchun, Qu Liandong
Abstract excerpt
The highly polymorphic chicken major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is associated with different levels of immunologic responses to certain avian pathogens. MHC-B haplotype chickens are an important genetic resource for studying the genetic determination of pathogen resistance and susceptibility. The BWEL chicken population is the only specific pathogen-free (SPF) chickens bred and developed by the State Center...
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