Strategies for evaluating B*18 allelic diversity by sequence-based typing applied to studies of a population from Singapore and African-Americans

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 66-69

  Hou, L ^a   Tu, B ^a   Ling, G ^a   Tang, T ^a   Cao, K ^a   Steiner, N K ^a   Lazaro, A ^a   Ng, J ^a   Hartzman, R J ^b   Hurley, C K ^a,c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele frequency; HLA B

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLELISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE BASED TYPING METHOD; SINGAPORE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHINA; DNA PRIMERS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALAYSIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REGISTRIES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINGAPORE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33644914761     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: 13990039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2005.00503.x     Document Type: Article

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