Gene diversity of chimpanzee ABO blood group genes elucidated from intron 6 sequences

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 211-214

  Kitano, T ^a   Noda, R ^a   Sumiyama, K ^a,c   Ferrell, R E ^b   Saitou, N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; CHIMPANZEE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

MAMMALIA; PAN PANISCUS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRIMATES;

EID: 0034106101     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/91.3.211     Document Type: Conference Paper

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