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Evolutionary relationship of HLA-DRB genes inferred from intron sequences.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jun 1996
Satta Y, Mayer W E, Klein J
Abstract excerpt
The major histocompatibility complex (Mhc) consists of class I and class II genes. In the human Mhc (HLA) class II genes, nine DRB loci have been identified. To elucidate the origin of these duplicated loci and allelic divergences at the most polymorphic DRB1 locus, introns 4 and 5 as well as the 3' untranslated region (altogether approximately 1,000 base pairs) of seven HLA-DRB loci, three HLA-DRB1 alleles, and...
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