HLA genotyping of 5000- and 6000-year-old ancient bones in Japan

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-58

  Anzai, T ^a,b   Naruse, T K ^a   Tokunaga, K ^c   Honma, T ^b   Baba, H ^d   Akazawa, T ^e   Inoko, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^e National Institutes for the Humanities International Research Center for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ancient bone; Ancient DNA; Anthropology; DNA extraction; HLA DNA typing

Indexed keywords

DNA; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; PHENOL; PROTEINASE K;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; BONE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY;

ALLELES; BONE AND BONES; FOSSILS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HUMANS; JAPAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0032588548     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.1999.540106.x     Document Type: Article

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