HLA class II alleles in Ainu living in Hidaka district, Hokkaido, Northern Japan

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-9

  Bannai, Makoto ^a,f   Tokunaga, Katsushi ^b   Imanishi, Tadashi ^c   Harihara, Shinji ^b   Fujisawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Juji, Takeo ^d   Omoto, Keiichi ^e  

^a Japanese Red Cross Society   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^d JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^e National Institutes for the Humanities International Research Center for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

^f MUSASHINO RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amerindians; DRB1 1106; DRB1 1406; Japanese; PCR SSCP; Principal component analysis; Wajin

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; JAPAN; MIGRATION; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY;

ALLELES; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HUMANS; JAPAN; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0029833081     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199609)101:1<1::AID-AJPA1>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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