MHC diversity in Caucasians, investigated using highly heterogeneous noncoding sequence motifs at the DQB1 locus including a retroviral long terminal repeat element, and its comparison to nonhuman primate homologues

Immunogenetics

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 898-904

  Donner, Horst ^a   Tönjes, Ralf R ^b   Bontrop, Ronald E ^c   Kurth, Reinhard ^b   Usadel, Klaus Henning ^a   Badenhoop, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b PAUL EHRLICH INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evolution; HERV; HLA DQA1; HLA DQB1; LTR; MHC; Primates

Indexed keywords

HLA DQ ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HAPLOTYPES; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0033811473     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510000222     Document Type: Article

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