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Why is it an Advantage to the population of species to have a highly polymorphic MHC region?
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∙ 13y ago
The advantage of having a highly polymorphic MHC is that it adds to variety of which it can bind to a peptide. If MHC cannot bind to a viral or bacterial peptide then your body cannot use its' adaptive immunity to fight off an infection. The T cell requires MHC to activate and if MHC is not binding to anything because it has such a small repertoire of alleles to create a MHC molecule, it will render T cells useless. So to have a highly polymorphic MHC gene that can encode to bind to many different peptides is advantageous for survival.
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