Comparative Genetics of MHC Polymorphisms in Different Primate Species: Duplications and Deletions

Human Immunology

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 388-397

  Bontrop, Ronald E ^a  

^a BIOMEDICAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, MHC CLASS I; GENES, MHC CLASS II; HLA-A ANTIGENS; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HLA-C ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646789143     PISSN: 01988859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2006.03.007     Document Type: Review

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