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Natural selection on the peptide-binding regions of major histocompatibility complex molecules

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Hughes, A.L., Hughes, M.K. Natural selection on the peptide-binding regions of major histocompatibility complex molecules. Immunogenetics 42, 233–243 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00176440

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