Footprints of intragenic recombination at HLA loci

Immunogenetics

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 430-441

  Takahata, Naoyuki ^a   Satta, Yoko ^a  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allelic lineages; Balancing selection; Linkage; Neutral polymorphism

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN; HLA DP ANTIGEN; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

EID: 0031978628     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050380     Document Type: Article

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