Table 1.

Nomenclature and characteristics of the congenic and control strains used for investigation.

		Congenic Region
Strain Name	Abbreviation	Mbp	cM	H2 Haplotype**
Congenic strains
B10.A-H2h2/(2R)SgSnJ	2R	33.74 – 35.34	18.20 – 19.06	H2h2
B10.A-H2h4/(4R)SgDvEgJ	4R	29.09 – 34.38	16.30 – 18.64	H2h4
B10.A-H2i5 H2-T18a/(5R)SgSnJ	5R	34.45 – 36.35	18.70 – 19.14	H2i5
C3.SW-H2b/SnJ	C3H-H2b	33.74 – 43.80	18.20 – 23.30	H2bc
Control strains
C57BL/10SnJ†	B10	- - -	- - -	H2b
A/WySnJ ‡	A	- - -	- - -	H2a
C3H/HeSnJ++	HeSnJ	- - -	- - -	H2k

^*Mbp and cM were determined using the MGI website:http://www.informatics.jax.org/searches/marker and genotyped by Malhotra and Travis, unpublished).

^**MHC H2 Haplotypes according to Appendix 2: MHC H2 haplotypes (www.jax.org/jaxmice/search).

^†background strain for 2R, 4R, and 5R mice ,

^‡donor strain for 2R, 4R, and 5R mice.,

⁺⁺background strain for C3H-H2^b mice.