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
The maintenance of MHC polymorphism
โ Scribed by Wayne K Potts; Edward K Wakeland
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 166 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-5699
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