Associations between HLA class II alleles in a North Indian population

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-43

  Rani, R ^a,b   Fernandez Vina M A ^a   Stastny, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Anthropology; HLA haplotype; North Indians

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; INDIAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031868484     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1998.tb03021.x     Document Type: Article

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