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Evolutionary origins of retroposon lineages of Mhc class II Ab alleles.
Immunogenetics - 1 Jan 1996
Lu C C, Ye Y, She J X, Bonhomme F, Wakeland E K
Abstract excerpt
Major histocompatibility complex (Mhc) class II Ab genes have evolved into three distinct lineages. While lineage 2 alleles differ from lineage 1 alleles by the insertion of a retroposon in intron 2, the basis for the extremely large intron 2 in lineage 3 alleles has heretofore been undetermined. In this report, we demonstrate by nucleotide sequencing that the genomic sequences of prototypic alleles from all...
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