Birth of a new allele in a sibling: cis or trans gene conversion during meiosis?

Immunogenetics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 520-523

  Dormoy, Anne ^a   Reviron, Denis Vincent ^b   Froelich, Nadine ^a   Weiller, Pierre Jean ^c   Mercier, Pierre Jean ^b   Tongio, Marie Marthe ^a  

^a Etablissement de Transfus Sanguine   (France)

^b Etablissement de transfusion sanguine Alpes Provence   (France)

^c TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; EXON; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MEIOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; EXONS; GENE CONVERSION; HUMANS; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030921793     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050314     Document Type: Article

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