Recent origin of HLA-DRB1 alleles and implications for human evolution

Nature Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 237-242

  Bergström, Tomas F ^a   Josefsson, Agnetha ^a   Erlich, Henry A ^b   Gyllensten, Ulf ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE CONVERSION; HUMAN; INTRON; POINT MUTATION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRIMATES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TIME FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

HOMINIDAE; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0031907173     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0398-237     Document Type: Article

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