Assessing MHC class I diversity in dairy cattle populations
The gene dense major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region, present in all jawed vertebrates, encodes molecules involved in self-non-self discrimination and the binding and presentation of antigenic peptides to T cells during the adaptive immune response. Variation in MHC genes is thought to be dr...
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University of Glasgow
2010
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531497 |