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No evidence that mate choice in humans is dependent on the MHC
2018-06-04
Abstract excerpt
A long-standing hypothesis in biology proposes that various species select mates with a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) composition divergent from their own, so as to improve immune response in offspring. However, human and animal studies investigating this mate selection hypothesis have returned inconsistent results. Here, we analyze 239 mate-pairs of Dutch ancestry, all with whole-genome sequence data col...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9b3c67fe-e02c-59a0-9434-1f2dcb7ea94a
- DOI
- 10.1101/339028