HLA genes in the Chuvashian population from European Russia: Admixture of Central European and Mediterranean populations

Human Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 375-392

  Arnaiz Villena, Antonio ^a   Martinez Laso, Jorge ^a   Moscoso, Juan ^a   Livshits, Gregory ^b   Zamora, Jorge ^a   Gomez Casado, Eduardo ^a   Silvera Redondo, Carlos ^a   Melvin, Kristin ^c   Crawford, Michael H ^c  

^a SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Spain)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulgarians; Bulgars; Central Europe; Chuvash; HLA; Macedonians; Mediterraneans; Na dene; Russians; Siberians

Indexed keywords

DNA; HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ALTAIC TURKIC LANGUAGE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHUVASHIAN POPULATION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; HAPLOTYPE; HLA GENE; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MIDDLE EAST; NEIGHBOR JOINING DENDROGRAM; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 0141429181     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hub.2003.0040     Document Type: Article

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