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Resistance to Marek's disease in chickens with recombinant haplotypes to the major histocompatibility (B) complex.
Poultry science - 1 Apr 1994
Schat K A, Taylor R L, Briles W E
Abstract excerpt
Genetic resistance to Marek's disease (MD) is associated with the B-F region of the MHC. The resistance of chickens possessing either of two MHC haplotypes to challenge with different strains of MDV was examined. Chickens with serologically similar MHC recombinants BR2 and BR4 (both BF2-G23) were backcrossed for four generations to the highly inbred UCD-003 line (B17B17). Heterozygotes (B17BF2-G23) were mated to...
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