Cw*101 defines a divergent African HLA-C allelic lineage

Immunogenetics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 173-180

  Wells, R Spencer ^a   Seielstad, Mark T ^a,b   Bunce, Mike ^c   Tyan, Dolly B ^d,e   Bekele, Endashaw ^f   Parham, Peter ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN;

AFRICA; ALLELE; ARTICLE; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; GENE; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AFRICA; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, MHC CLASS I; HAPLOTYPES; HLA-C ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030610138     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050259     Document Type: Article

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