A new TNFA promoter allele identified in South American Blacks

Immunogenetics

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 485-486

  Zimmerman, Peter A ^a   Guderian, Ronald H ^b   Nutman, Thomas B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL VOZANDES   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; NEGRO; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOUTH AMERICA;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOUTH AMERICA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0029814642     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050158     Document Type: Article

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