2016 Research Annual Report
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Fig A: In traditional Mendelian genetics (top image), pregnancies among female offspring are equally susceptible to fetal wastage or other complications. This stems from disruptions in fetal tolerance regardless of paternal major histocompatibility complex haplotype specificity. Comparatively, persistent postnatal maintenance of tolerogenic microchimeric maternal cells in female offspring promotes cross-generational reproductive fitness (bottom image). It does this by selectively protecting against fetal wastage during next-generation pregnancies sired by males with shared overlapping non-inherited maternal antigens specificity.

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