The major histocompatibility complex and human evolution.
Many alleles at the human major histocompatibility complex (HLA) loci diverged before the divergence of humans and great apes from a common ancestor. This fact puts a lower limit on the size of the bottleneck in human evolution: the genus Homo must have been founded by no less than ten and probably by more than 10,000 individuals.
Klein
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Max-Planck Institut Für Biologie, Abteilung Immungenetik, Tübingen, FRG.
Gutknecht
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Fischer
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D000483:Alleles; D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D008285:Major Histocompatibility Complex / Q000235:genetics*; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic