BTW - some selected reading if you like ...
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C.J. Melief. 1983. Nonresponsiveness to the male antigen H-Y in H-2
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1990. Characterization of naturally occurring minor histocompatibility
peptides including H-4 and H-Y. Science.249:283.
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