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Investigators at University of Montpellier release new data on immunization
November 12th, 2008
According to a study from Montpellier, France, "General patterns of organization in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) have been successfully explained by the model of birth-and-death evolution, but understanding why certain MHC genes are maintained together into specific haplotypes remains challenging. The haplotype configurations of the functionally important class II DR region have been described in few primates and display important interspecific variability with respect to the extent of allelic variation, the number of loci and/or combinations of loci present." "Understanding the evolutionary mechanisms driving such variation is conditional upon...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-11-12)
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