Ian A. York <york at mbcrr.dfci.harvard.edu> writes:
>Perhaps someone out there can save me a lot of plowing through
>references. How many human and mouse alleles of beta-2 microglobulin are
>there? (I had this information and I seem to have lost the paper. It
>was probably out of date anyway.)
"The beta-chain of class I molecules, which is encoded by a gene
outside the MHC, is absolutely invariant among all human class I molecules
examined. (In the mouse, there are two common alleles.)"
-- Abbas et al., _Cellular and Molecular Immunology_.
c. 1991 W.B. Saunders Company. p. 107.
Don't know about mice, but I can't recall having heard of any other
human B2m alleles or point mutants.
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