Early evolution of MHC polymorphism
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D.R. Forsdyke
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Article
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1991
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Elsevier Science
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English
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There is unwarranted satisfaction with the view that MHC polymorphism evolved because there was a selective advantage in having a variety of MHC proteins to bind a variety of peptide subsets for presentation to T cells. While this may, in part, explain its maintainance, polymorphism may have evolved