A novel HLA-B null allele (B*4022N) generated by a nonsense codon in the α1 domain

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 378-380

  Tamouza, Ryad ^a   Sadki, K ^a,b   Schaeffer, V ^a   Carbonnelle, E ^a   Tatari, Z ^a   Chabod, J ^c   Toubert, A ^a   Raffoux, C ^a   Sayada, C ^d   Charron, D ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^c Etablissement de Transfus Sanguine   (France)

^d Parc Scientifique de Luminy   (France)

Author keywords

HLA B40; Null allele; Stop codon

Indexed keywords

HLA B ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; DNA DETERMINATION; EXON; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPING; STOP CODON;

ALLELES; CODON, NONSENSE; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA PRIMERS; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HUMANS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 0034013510     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.2000.550414.x     Document Type: Article

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