Haptoglobin-related protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HPRgene.[3][4][5] The HPR gene affects hereditary immunity to a non-pathogenic species of African trypanosomes.[6]
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Erickson LM, Kim HS, Maeda N (1993). "Junctions between genes in the haptoglobin gene cluster of primates". Genomics. 14 (4): 948–58. doi:10.1016/S0888-7543(05)80116-8. PMID1478675.
Tabak S, Lev A, Valansi C, et al. (1997). "Transcriptionally active haptoglobin-related (Hpr) gene in hepatoma G2 and leukemia molt-4 cells". DNA Cell Biol. 15 (11): 1001–7. doi:10.1089/dna.1996.15.1001. PMID8945641.
Loftus BJ, Kim UJ, Sneddon VP, et al. (1999). "Genome duplications and other features in 12 Mb of DNA sequence from human chromosome 16p and 16q". Genomics. 60 (3): 295–308. doi:10.1006/geno.1999.5927. PMID10493829.
Hatada S, Seed JR, Barker C, et al. (2002). "No trypanosome lytic activity in the sera of mice producing human haptoglobin-related protein". Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 119 (2): 291–4. doi:10.1016/S0166-6851(01)00420-0. PMID11814582.