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From: mkkuhner@codon4.berkeley.edu (Mary K. Kuhner;335 Mulford)
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Subject: Introductions
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Date: 16 May 89 18:43:59 GMT
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Name:  Mary K. Kuhner
Organization:  University of California, Berkeley
Status:  graduate student (one more year!)
Organism:  humans
Interest:  Evolution and population genetics of the HLA
   complex (the human Major Histocompatibility loci)
Methods:  statistical analysis of sequences and population
   data.

A very odd group of genes indeed--is the enormous polymorphism
due to frequency-dependent selection, heterozygote advantage,
assortative mating, some novel molecular mechanism, or even
drift?