HLA-G gene polymorphism in a Japanese population

Immunogenetics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 186-191

  Yamashita, Takahiro ^a,b   Fujii, Tomoyuki ^a   Watanabe, Yoshihisa ^b   Tokunaga, Katsushi ^b,c   Tadokoro, Kenji ^b   Juji, Takeo ^b   Taketani, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; JAPAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENES, MHC CLASS I; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL;

EID: 0029897347     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050110     Document Type: Article

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