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MHC class I diversity of olive baboons (Papio anubis) unravelled by next-generation sequencing.
Immunogenetics - 1 Jul 2018
van der Wiel Marit K H, Doxiadis Gaby G M, de Groot N, Otting N, de Groot N G, Poirier N, Blancho G, Bontrop R E
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The olive baboon represents an important model system to study various aspects of human biology and health, including the origin and diversity of the major histocompatibility complex. After screening of a group of related animals for polymorphisms associated with a well-defined microsatellite marker, subsequent MHC class I typing of a selected population of 24 animals was performed on two distinct next-generation...
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