Three new DPB1 alleles identified in a Bantu-speaking population from central Cameroon

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 293-299

  Zimmerman, P A ^a   Steiner, L L ^b   Titanji, V P K ^c   Nde, P N ^c   Bradley, J E ^d   Pogonka, T ^e   Begovich, A B ^b  

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

^b ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BUEA   (Cameroon)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Directed heteroduplex analysis; DNA sequence; HLA DPB1; MHC class II; Sequence motifs; Sequence specific oligonucleotide probes

Indexed keywords

HLA DP ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HLA SYSTEM; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029932558     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1996.tb02556.x     Document Type: Article

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