MHC immune responses

In the 1960s, studies done by Baruj Benacerraf and colleagues (Levine et al. J Exp Med 118:953, 1963) and Hugh McDevitt and coworkers (J Exp Med 126:969, 1967), amongst others, revealed that the MHC genes controlled specific immune responses through what they called Immune Response genes (Ir genes).

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