Intronic sequence motifs of HLA-DQB1 are shared between humans, apes and old world monkeys, but a retroviral LTR element (DQLTR3) is human specific

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 551-558

  Donner, Horst ^a   Tonjes R R ^b   Bontrop, R E ^c   Kurth, R ^b   Usadel, K H ^a   Badenhoop, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Apes; Evolution; HERV K10; HLA DQB1; Long terminal repeat; Old world monkeys

Indexed keywords

HLA DQ ANTIGEN;

APE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; INTRON; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; CERCOCEBUS; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS K; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MAMMALIA; PAPIO PAPIO; PRIMATES; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0033066689     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.1999.530605.x     Document Type: Article

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