Allelic diversity at the primate Mhc-G locus: Exon 3 bears stop codons in all Cercophitecinae sequences

Immunogenetics

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 327-336

  Castro, M José ^a   Morales, Pablo ^a   Fernández Soria, Victor ^a   Suarez, Belén ^a   Recio, M José ^a   Alvarez, Miguel ^a   Martín Villa, Manuel ^a   Arnaiz Villena, Antonio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MESSENGER RNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ALLELISM; ANIMAL CELL; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EVOLUTION; EXON; FISH; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GORILLA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPTILE; RNA SPLICING; STOP CODON;

EID: 0030010214     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02199801     Document Type: Article

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