Possible sex-correlated transmission of maternal class I HLA haplotypes

European Journal of Immunogenetics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 169-177

  Komlos, L ^a   Korostishevsky, M ^b   Halbrecht, I ^a   Vardimon, D ^a   Ben Rafael, Z ^a   Klein, T ^c  

^a HASHARON HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA B ANTIGEN; MINOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSFER; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INHERITANCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MINOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING;

EID: 0030979566     PISSN: 09607420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2370.1997.00253.x     Document Type: Article

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