MIC-A polymorphism in Japanese and a MIC-A-MIC-B null haplotype

Immunogenetics

Volumn 49, Issue 7-8, 1999, Pages 620-628

  Komatsu Wakui, Miki ^a,b   Tokunaga, Katsushi ^a   Ishikawa, Yoshihide ^b   Kashiwase, Kouichi ^b   Moriyama, Satoshi ^b   Tsuchiya, Naoyuki ^a   Ando, Hitoshi ^c   Shiina, Takashi ^c   Geraghty, Daniel E ^d   Inoko, Hidetoshi ^c   Juji, Takeo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Deletion; HLA association; MIC A polymorphism; Null haplotype; PCR SSCP

Indexed keywords

HLA B ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; HUMAN; JAPAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; STOP CODON;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0033067225     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050658     Document Type: Article

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