Characteristics of HLA class I and class II polymorphisms in Rwandan women

Experimental and Clinical Immunogenetics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 185-189

  Tang, Jianming ^a,b   Naik, Eknath ^b   Costello, Caroline ^b   Karita, Etienne ^c   Rivers, Charles ^b   Allen, Susan ^b   Kaslow, Richard A ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c National AIDS Control Program Rwanda   (Rwanda)

Author keywords

B; C; DQB1; DRB1; Haplotype; HLA A; Rwanda

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RWANDA; TELOMERE;

EID: 0033667428     PISSN: 02549670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000019138     Document Type: Article

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