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Evidence for balancing selection at the major histocompatibility complex in a free-living ruminant.

The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000

Paterson S

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Evidence for selective maintenance of genetic diversity at the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) was investigated in an unmanaged population of Soay sheep on the island of Hirta, St. Kilda, Scotland. Animals were sampled as newborn lambs and between 887 and 1209 individuals were typed at each of five microsatellite markers located either within or flanking the ovine MHC. Markers located within the MHC showed...

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PMID: 9703684
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/89.4.289

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