Colonia Tovar: The history of a semi-isolated Venezuelan population of German ancestry described by HLA Class I genes

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 401-407

  Gendzekhadze, K ^a   Montagnani, S ^a   Ogando, V ^a   Balbas, O ^a   Mendez Castellano, H ^b   Layrisse, Z ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b Fundac Estud Crecimiento D   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Class I; Colonia Tovar; HLA; Venezuelan population

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE FLOW; GENE POOL; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPE; HLA SYSTEM; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; VENEZUELA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; VENEZUELA;

COLONIA;

EID: 0242301664     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.2003.00119.x     Document Type: Article

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