Locus specificity of polymorphic alleles and evolution by a birth-and death process in mammalian MHC genes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 147-156

  Gu, Xun ^a   Nei, Masatoshi ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Birth and death evolution; Gene conversion; Interlocus recombination; MHC polymorphism; Multigene families; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; EVOLUTION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033067004     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026097     Document Type: Article

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