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No evidence for disassortative mating based on HLA in a small-scale, endogamous population

2025-05-08

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Studies dating back several decades have suggested that humans prefer potential mates with dissimilar HLA genotypes. Evidence for actualized disassortative mating based on the human-specific MHC remains inconclusive. For instance, cosmopolitan populations have often exhibited the opposite trend whereby assortative mating at the MHC is observed, indicating that social stratification may overwhelm potential biologic...

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Literature Corpus work: 92c05e71-f9fe-5dab-a5a7-b7c88b438c8f
DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.06.652536

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