Towards understanding the origin and dispersal of Austronesians in the Solomon Sea: HLA class II polymorphism in eight distinct populations of Asia-Oceania

European Journal of Immunogenetics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 405-416

  Zimdahl, H ^a   Schiefenhovel W ^b   Kayser, M ^d   Roewer, L ^c   Nagy, Marion ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA DP ANTIGEN; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ABORIGINE; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYNESIA; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIWAN; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, MHC CLASS II; HAPLOTYPES; HLA-DP ANTIGENS; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MELANESIA; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYNESIA;

OCEANIA;

EID: 0032800066     PISSN: 09607420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2370.1999.00183.x     Document Type: Article

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