Analysis of the gene-dense major histocompatibility complex class III region and its comparison to mouse

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2621-2636

  Xie, Tao ^a,d   Rowen, Lee ^a   Aguado, Begoña ^b,e   Ahearn, Mary Ellen ^c   Madan, Anup ^a,f   Qin, Shizhen ^a   Campbell, R Duncan ^b   Hood, Leroy ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

^b MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 3; RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; HUMANS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0348013068     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1736803     Document Type: Article

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