MICA Allele-Level Typing by Sequence-based Typing with Computerized Assignment of Polymorphic Sites and Short Tandem Repeats within the Transmembrane Region

Human Immunology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 145-151

  Zou, Yizhou ^a   Han, Mei ^a   Wang, Zhengnan ^a   Stastny, Peter ^a  

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

Author keywords

genotype; MICA; PCR SBT; polymorphism; TM

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1 CHAIN RELATED A PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART GRAFT; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN DONOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

ALLELES; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINE; EXONS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SOFTWARE; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 33646370502     PISSN: 01988859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2006.02.016     Document Type: Article

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