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Chickens of Regional Poultry Research Laboratory (RPRL) inbred line 63 regress sarcomas induced by Bryan high-titer Rous sarcoma virus to a greater extent than chickens of line RPRL 100, although these lines are identical for the major histocompatibility B complex. They differ, however, at three independent autosomal loci: Ly-4 and Th-1 determine the surface alloantigens of partly overlapping subsets of T lymphocytes, and Bu-1 determines a surface alloantigen of B lymphocytes. The association of genotypes at these loci with quantitative variation in their ability to regress Rous sarcomas was tested in segregating F4 generation progeny derived from crosses of lines 100 and 63. The Ly-4 and Bu-1 genotypes showed association with Rous sarcoma regression, but the Th-1 genotype did not. Chickens of the Ly-4 a/Ly-4 a, Bu-1 b/Bu-1 b and Ly-4 b/Ly-4 b, Bu-1 a/Bu-1 a genotypes had a significantly higher regressor ability than the other two double homozygous genotypes. These results indicate that higher regression is associated with (1) interaction between the Ly-4 and Bu-1 loci, and (2) complementation between either the line 6 Ly-4 a allele and the line 100 Bu-1 b allele, or the line 100 Ly-4 b allele and the line 6 Bu-1 a allele.
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Gilmour, D.G., Collins, W.M., Fredericksen, T.L. et al. Genetic interaction between Non-MHC T- and B-cell alloantigens in response to rous sarcomas in chickens. Immunogenetics 23, 1–6 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00376514
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