Recombination and gene conversion-like events may contribute to ABO gene diversity causing various phenotypes

Immunogenetics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 190-199

  Ogasawara, Kenichi ^a,b   Yabe, Ryuichi ^c   Uchikawa, Makoto ^a   Nakata, Kenichi ^b   Watanabe, Junnosuke ^b   Takahashi, Yuji ^b   Tokunaga, Katsushi ^d  

^a JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b Japanese Red Cross Society   (Japan)

^c Japan Red Cross Tokyo W Blood Ctr   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

ABO; Chimeric allele; Gene conversion; Polymorphism; Recombination

Indexed keywords

GUANINE; NUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP O; CHIMERA; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; INTRON; JAPAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GUANINE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0035020152     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510100315     Document Type: Article

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