Alternate splice variants of the hemochromatosis gene Hfe

Immunogenetics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 357-359

  Rhodes, D A ^a   Trowsdale, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hemochromatosis; HLA; Iron metabolism

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENETICS; IRON METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CELL LINE; EXONS; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; U937 CELLS;

EID: 0032983515     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050505     Document Type: Article

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