Aberrant splicing of intron 1 creates a novel null HLA-B*1501 allele

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 244-252

  Curran, M D ^a   Williams, F ^a   Little, A M ^b   Rima, B K ^c   Madrigal, J A ^b   Middleton, D ^a,c  

^a BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HLA B*1501102n; Intron 1 deletion; Null allele; RNA splicing

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HLA B ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL SURFACE; DONOR; EXON; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRON; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ALLELES; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BONE MARROW; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INTRONS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGISTRIES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0033034592     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.1999.530304.x     Document Type: Article

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