Evolution of introns and exons of class II major histocompatibility complex genes of vertebrates

Immunogenetics

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 473-486

  Hughes, Austin L ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Balancing selection; Class II MHC; Intron evolution; Major histocompatibility complex; Recombination

Indexed keywords

DNA; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ARTICLE; CYPRINIFORMES; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; CYPRINIDAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENES, MHC CLASS II; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INTRONS; PHYLOGENY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0034020769     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050646     Document Type: Article

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