HLA-E, HLA-F, and HLA-G polymorphism: Genomic sequence defines haplotype structure and variation spanning the nonclassical class I genes

Immunogenetics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 241-251

  Pyo, Chul Woo ^a   Williams, Luke M ^a   Moore, Yuki ^a   Hyodo, Hironobu ^a   Li, Shuyin Sue ^a   Zhao, Lue Ping ^a   Sageshima, Noriko ^b   Ishitani, Akiko ^b   Geraghty, Daniel E ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alleles; Genomics; MHC; Nonclassical class I; SNPs

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA E ANTIGEN; HLA F ANTIGEN; HLA G ANTIGEN; PRIMER DNA;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HAPLOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL MEMBRANE; HAPLOTYPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33646363326     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-005-0076-z     Document Type: Article

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