mkkuhner@codon4.berkeley.edu (Mary K. Kuhner;335 Mulford) (05/17/89)
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?