Minor histocompatibility antigen

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Minor histocompatibility antigen is a histocompatibility antigen which is occasionally an obstacle in suppressing an immune response,[1], though less frequently than those of the major histocompatibility complex.

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  1. ^ Robertson N, Chai J, Millrain M, Scott D, Hashim F, Manktelow E, Lemonnier F, Simpson E, Dyson J (2007). "Natural regulation of immunity to minor histocompatibility antigens". J Immunol 178 (6): 3558–65. PMID 17339452. 

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