Genetics Selection Evolution (Mar 2000)

The porcine Major Histocompatibility Complex and related paralogous regions: a review

  • Vaiman Marcel,
  • Gaillard Claire,
  • Renard Christine,
  • Chardon Patrick

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1297-9686-32-2-109
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 32, no. 2
pp. 109 – 128

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Abstract The physical alignment of the entire region of the pig major histocompatibility complex (MHC) has been almost completed. In swine, the MHC is called the SLA (swine leukocyte antigen) and most of its class I region has been sequenced. Over one hundred genes have been characterised, including the classical class I and class I-related genes, as well as the class II gene families. These results in swine provide new evidence for the striking conservation during the evolution of a general MHC framework, and are consistent with the location of the class I genes on segments referred to as permissive places within the MHC class I region. Recent results confirm the involvement of the SLA region in numerous quantitative traits.

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