Patterns of reticulate evolution for the classical class I and II HLA loci

Immunogenetics

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 312-323

  Jakobsen, Ingrid B ^a,b,c   Wilson, Susan R ^b   Easteal, Simon ^a  

^a Biology and Environment   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele; Gene conversion; HLA; Human; MHC; Recombination

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, MHC CLASS I; HLA-D ANTIGENS; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0031709963     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050438     Document Type: Article

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