Description of a new HLA-B40 allele (B*4011) found in a Mexican individual of Nahua (Aztec) descent

Immunogenetics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 359-360

  Vargas Alarcón, Gilberto ^a   Gómez Casado, Eduardo ^a   Martinez Laso, Jorge ^a   Granados, Julio ^b   De La Torre, Carlos Garcia ^a   Alegre, Roberto ^a   Alcocer Varela, Jorge ^b   Arnaiz Villena, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA B ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INDIANS, CENTRAL AMERICAN; MALE; MEXICO; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 0030816207     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050286     Document Type: Article

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