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Potential for paralogous mapping to simplify the genetics of diseases and functions associated with MHC haplotypes
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Potential for paralogous mapping to simplify the genetics of diseases and functions associated with MHC haplotypes

Roger Dawkins, Jemma Berry, Patricia Martinez, Silvana Gaudieri, Jennie Hui, Sonia Cattley, Natalie Longman, Jerzy Kulski and Patrick Carnegie
Major Histocompatibility Complex: Evolution, Structure, and Function, pp.146-157
6th Interna­tional Workshop on MHC Evolution (Hayama, Japan, 25/05/1999–29/05/1999)
2000

Abstract

Haemochromatosis and autoimmunity Immunoregulation Major histocompatibility complex Psoriasis
The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) region contains several hundred genes in addition to the well-known HLA Class I and II loci. Some of these will explain MHC-disease associations. We have used paralogous and syntenic mapping to short list candidates and conclude that non-HLA genes present on human 6,1 and 19 and murine 17, 4 and 7 regulate immune responses and autoimmune disease. These genes are likely to be components of the early pre-HLA MHC and include tenascin and possibly notch inter alia.

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