Social discrimination by quantitative assessment of immunogenetic similarity

by Jandouwe Villinger, and Bruce Waldman

Proceedings BVolume 279(1746):4368-4374

November 7, 2012

©2012 by The Royal Society

Association preference of subjects for the more immunogenetically similar stimulus group as a function of the MHC ‘stimulus differential’ between the two stimulus groups based on MHC class

I (circles) and MHC class II PBR (squares) amino acid sequence simil...

Jandouwe Villinger, and Bruce Waldman Proc. R. Soc. B 2012;279:4368-4374

©2012 by The Royal Society

Mean MHC-similarity preferences of MHC-homozygous subjects (four genotypes: ff, gg, jj and rr) among stimulus groups with different numbers of shared MHC haplotypes (2 versus 0 shared

haplotypes; 2 versus 1 shared haplotypes; 1 versus 0 shared haplotypes).

Jandouwe Villinger, and Bruce Waldman Proc. R. Soc. B 2012;279:4368-4374

©2012 by The Royal Society