And when the t - shirt wearer and sniffer had very
similar immune system genes, like for example, a brother and sister, then the t - shirt was rated as smelling very unattractive.
Not exact matches
In the study, the scientists used a type of mouse, called CVN - AD, that they had created several years ago by swapping out a handful of important
genes to make the animal's
immune system more
similar to a human's.
She found a
gene for what's known as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-- cell surface molecules that help the
immune system recognize foreigners — that was remarkably
similar to one in humans that allows infected people to keep the virus in check for decades.
The more common ancestors appear on both sides of a dog's pedigree, the more frequently they appear, and the closer they are to the dog ancestrally, the greater the chance that the dog will have inherited two like or very
similar copies of the major histocompatibility complex, the
genes that govern the
immune system, which can have a negative impact on
immune system function.