Interallelic recombination has not played a major role in the history of the HLA-C locus

Immunogenetics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 128-133

  Yeager, Meredith ^a   Hughes, Austin L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GORILLA; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION; GORILLA GORILLA; HLA-A ANTIGENS; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HLA-C ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029928983     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050100     Document Type: Article

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