Summary: Key words:
major histocompatibility complex; incomplete
penetrance; autoimmunity; polygenic disease
Acknowledgments:
This work was supported by grants HL-29583
and AI-14157 from the National Institutes of
Health. The authors especially thank Dr. Charles
E. Larsen for his thoughtful comments. They
also thank Drs. Devendra P. Dubey, Keith
Crawford, Gabriel Uko, John Xu and Fred S.
Rosen for their valuable suggestions.
Received 18 November 1999, revised,
accepted for publication 15 May 2000
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C.A. Alper Incomplete penetrance of MHC
Z. Awdeh

Source: Alper, Chester A. - Immune Disease Institute, Harvard University

Collections: Biology and Medicine