DQA-DQB linkage in Old World monkeys.

doi:10.1111/j.1399-0039.1998.tb02975.x

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DQA-DQB linkage in Old World monkeys.

Tissue antigens - 1 Apr 1998

Gaur L K, Pandarpurkar M, Anderson J

Abstract excerpt

The MHC DQ region in nonhuman primates, as in humans, consists of alpha and beta chains that are polymorphic with strong linkage disequilibrium between certain DQA-DQB alleles. Not only are contemporary HLA class II allelic variants present in evolutionarily distant species, but we demonstrate th...

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Alleles
Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Female
Genetic Linkage
Histocompatibility Antigens Class II
Humans
Macaca nemestrina
Male
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutagenesis
Papio
Pedigree
Sequence Homology, Amino Acid

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