Natural inactivation of a common HLA allele (A*2402) has occurred on at least three separate occasions

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 5242-5250

  Magor, Katharine E ^a   Taylor, Eleanor J ^a   Shen, Susan Y ^a   Martinez Naves, Eduardo ^a   Valiante, Nicholas M ^a   Wells, R Spencer ^a   Gumperz, Jenny E ^a   Adams, Erin J ^a   Little, Ann Margaret ^a   Williams, Fionnuala ^b   Middleton, Derek ^b   Gao, Xiojiang ^c   McCluskey, James ^d   Parham, Peter ^a   Lienert Weidenbach, Kristin ^a,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Australian National University   (Australia)

^d FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HLA ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

ALLELES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0031154294     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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