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Science 29 January 1965:
Vol. 147. no. 3657, pp. 517 - 518
DOI: 10.1126/science.147.3657.517
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Genetic Control in Guinea Pigs of Immune Response to Conjugates of Haptens and Poly-L-Lysine

Bernard B. Levine 1 and Baruj Benacerraf 1

1 New York University School of Medicine, New York

Random-bred Hartley strain guinea pigs which do not respond immunologically to conjugates of hapten and poly-L-lysine mere mated with heterozygous guinea pigs which do. These responders were considered heterozygous for this trait since their mating resulted in at least one nonresponder offspring. Of 31 offspring from 10 breeding pairs (nonresponder x heterozygous responder) 14 were responders. There was no evidence that this trait is sex-linked. This finding confirms the view that, in guinea pigs, development of an immune response to the aforementioned conjugates is a genetically transmitted autosomal, unigenic Mendelian dominant trait.


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