HLA-B44031;DRB1*1503 and other sub-Saharan African major histocompatibility complex haplotypes in African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans carry C4A gene deletions: Implications for ethnicity-specific lupus susceptibility genes

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 2378-2379

  Fraser, Patricia A ^a   Lu, Ling Ying ^a   Najundaswamy, Shakuntala N ^a   Chen, Dong Feng ^a   Uko, Gabriel ^a   Tonks, Susan ^b  

^a CENTER FOR BLOOD RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HLA A1 ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

AFRICA; AMERICAS; CARIBBEAN REGION; COMPLEMENT C4A; COMPLEMENT C4B; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033787768     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200010)43:10<2378::AID-ANR27>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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