SNP profile within the human major histocompatibility complex reveals an extreme and interrupted level of nucleotide diversity

Genome Research

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1579-1586

  Gaudieri, Silvana ^a,b   Dawkins, Roger L ^b   Habara, Kaori ^a   Kulski, Jerzy K ^b   Gojobori, Takashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BASE COMPOSITION; CELL LINE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HAPLOTYPES; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033786921     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.127200     Document Type: Article

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