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Primate DRB genes from the DR3 and DR8 haplotypes contain ERV9 LTR elements at identical positions
The HLA-DRB genes of the human major histocompatibility complex constitute a multigene family with a varying number of DRB genes in different haplotypes. To gain further knowledge concerning the evolutionary rela...
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Gene duplications and sequence polymorphism of bovine class II DQB genes
The genetic diversity of bovine class II DQB genes was investigated by polymerase chain reaction amplification and DNA sequencing. The first domain exon was amplified from genomic DNA samples representing 14 clas...
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Evolution ofMHC polymorphism: Extensive sharing of polymorphic sequence motifs between human and bovine DRB alleles
The evolution ofMHC polymorphism has been studied by comparing the amino acid and nucleotide sequences of 14 bovine and 32 humanDRB alleles. The comparison revealed an extensive sharing of polymorphic sequence mo...