Long-term persistence of both functional and non-functional alleles at the leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor A3 (LILRA3) locus suggests balancing selection

Human Genetics

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 436-443

  Hirayasu, Kouyuki ^a,b   Ohashi, Jun ^b   Kashiwase, Koichi ^a   Takanashi, Minoko ^a   Satake, Masahiro ^a   Tokunaga, Katsushi ^b   Yabe, Toshio ^a  

^a JAPANESE RED CROSS SOCIETY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; LEUKOCYTE IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR A3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; JAPAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; VOLUNTEER;

ALLELES; CODON, NONSENSE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, FC; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 33645734407     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-006-0152-y     Document Type: Article

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