Co-duplication of olfactory receptor and MHC class I genes in the mouse major histocompatibility complex

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 3025-3040

  Amadou, Claire ^a,d   Younger, Ruth M ^b,e   Sims, Sarah ^b   Matthews, Lucy H ^b   Rogers, Jane ^b   Kumánovics, Attila ^a   Ziegler, Andreas ^c   Beck, Stephan ^b   Lindahl, Kirsten Fischer ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d University of Oxford ^*  (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ANTIGEN STRUCTURE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 6; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RAT; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, MHC CLASS I; HAPLOTYPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HUMANS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0345659228     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddg317     Document Type: Review

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