HLA-DQB1 sequencing-based typing using newly identified conserved nucleotide sequences in introns 1 and 2

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 99-106

  Dunn, Paul P J ^a,b   Day, S ^a   Williams, S ^a   Bendukidze, N ^a  

^a NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^b New Zealand Blood Service   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alu element; DQB1; Evolution; HLA; Intron; Polymorphism; Sequencing based typing

Indexed keywords

HLA DQ1 ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; DATA BASE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 22644432663     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2005.00445.x     Document Type: Article

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