HLA genes in Arabic-speaking Moroccans: Close relatedness to Berbers and Iberians

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 239-249

  Gomez Casado E ^a   Del Moral, P ^b   Martinez Laso, J ^a   Garcia Gomez A ^a   Allende, L ^a   Silvera Redondo, C ^a   Longas, J ^a   Gonzalez Hevilla M ^a   Kandil, M ^c   Zamora, J ^a   Arnaiz Villena, Antonio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Albanians; Berbers; Egyptians; Guanches; Imazighen; Iranians; Mediterraneans; Moroccans; Turks

Indexed keywords

ALGERIA; ARAB; ARTICLE; EGYPT; ETHNOLOGY; GENE POOL; GENOTYPE; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ALLELES; ARABS; GENE FREQUENCY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA ANTIGENS; HLA-A ANTIGENS; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MOROCCO;

IRANIA;

EID: 0034013266     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.2000.550307.x     Document Type: Article

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