A nucleotide insertion in exon 4 is responsible for the absence of expression of an HLA-A*01 allele

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 347-350

  Laforet, M ^a,b   Froelich, N ^a   Parissiadis, A ^a   Pfeiffer, B ^a   Schell, A ^a   Faller, B ^c   Woehl Jaegle, M L ^d   Cazenave, J P ^b   Tongio, M M ^a  

^a Lab d'Histocompatibilité   (France)

^b Etablissement de Transfus Sanguine   (France)

^c Hospices Civils de Colmar   (France)

^d HÔPITAL DE HAUTEPIERRE   (France)

Author keywords

HLA A 'blank' allele; HLA A polymorphism; HLA A*01

Indexed keywords

HLA A1 ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXON; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; LYMPHOCYTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STOP CODON;

EID: 0030829774     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1997.tb02885.x     Document Type: Article

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