DNA analysis of the immunoglobulin IGHG loci in a Mandenka population from eastern Senegal: Correlation with Gm haplotypes and hypotheses for the evolution of the Ig CH region

Human Genetics

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 36-47

  Dard, Patricia ^a,b   Sanchez Mazas, Alicia ^a,b   Dugoujon, Jean Michel ^c   De Lange, Gerda ^d   Langaney, André ^a,b   Lefranc, Marie Paule ^e   Lefranc, Gérard ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b MUSÉE DE L HOMME   (France)

^c CHU PURPAN   (France)

^d CENTRAL LABORATORY   (Netherlands)

^e CNRS and University Montpellier II   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA RECOMBINATION; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE INSERTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SENEGAL; SERUM GROUP GM SYSTEM;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ALLOTYPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CONSTANT REGIONS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GM ALLOTYPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SENEGAL;

EID: 0029894296     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050156     Document Type: Article

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