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Common HLA Alleles Associated with Health, but Not with Facial Attractiveness

Three adaptive hypotheses have been proposed to explain the link between the human leucocyte antigen (HLA) genes, health measures and facial attractiveness: inbreeding avoidance, heterozygote advantage and frequency-dependent selection. This paper reports findings that support a new hypothesis relat...

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Autores principales: Coetzee, Vinet, Barrett, Louise, Greeff, Jaco M., Henzi, S. Peter, Perrett, David I., Wadee, Ahmed A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1919430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17653267
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000640