Active MHC class Ib genes in rat are pseudogenes in the mouse

Immunogenetics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 118-121

  Lambracht Washington, Doris ^a   Lindahl, Kirsten Fischer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

H2 M region; Interspecies comparison; Orthologous genes; Pseudogenes; RT1.M region

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HAPLOTYPE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RAT; STOP CODON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, MHC CLASS I; HAPLOTYPES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PSEUDOGENES; RATS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

RODENTIA;

EID: 2942615487     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-004-0671-4     Document Type: Article

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