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One might expect the distribution to be skewed toward resistant alleles for diseases that have exerted long-term selection on a population, but it is difficult to make confident predictions about such patterns without detailed knowledge of host-pathogen coevolution.
A study in mice of resistance to Toxoplasma gondii showed that F 1 offspring of two genetically divergent parent strains were more resistant than either parent strain, but there seems to be no demonstration that heterozygosity at an MHC locus is responsible [ 18 ] , while another reference [ 19 ] that has been cited [ 10 ] as showing overdominance at MHC in the same host-pathogen system does not appear to address the question directly.
Recently, microarrays have also become a widely used tool for studying host-pathogen interactions from the perspective of both the host and the pathogen [ 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22].
Although studies of global transcriptional changes in both host cell and bacterial pathogens have proved powerful tools in the study of host-pathogen interactions, they cannot fruitfully assist investigation of these types of events.
In vitro assays to quantify survival of bacteria in macrophages provide useful insights into host-pathogen relations.