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Patterns of reticulate evolution for the classical class I and II HLA loci.
Immunogenetics - 1 Oct 1998
Jakobsen I B, Wilson S R, Easteal S
Abstract excerpt
Some alleles of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes have a reticulate pattern of evolution, probably resulting from the exchange of segments by gene conversion or recombination. Here we compare the extent and patterns of reticulate evolution among the classical class I and class II loci of the human MHC using the recently developed compatibility and partition matrix methods. A complex pattern is...
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