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Targeted capture enrichment and sequencing identifies extensive nucleotide variation in the turkey MHC-B.
Immunogenetics - 1 Mar 2016
Reed Kent M, Mendoza Kristelle M, Settlage Robert E
Abstract excerpt
Variation in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is increasingly associated with disease susceptibility and resistance in avian species of agricultural importance. This variation includes sequence polymorphisms but also structural differences (gene rearrangement) and copy number variation (CNV). The MHC has now been described for multiple galliform species including the best defined assemblies of the...
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