Codon usage bias and base composition in MHC genes in humans and common chimpanzees

Immunogenetics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 272-279

  McWeeney, Shannon K ^a   Valdes, Ana Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon usage bias; Effective number of codons; GC content; MHC; Scaled chi square

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE;

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CODON USAGE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; HUMAN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; HUMANS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0033026247     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050493     Document Type: Article

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