High Frequency of the TCRBV20S1 Null Allele in the Sardinian Population

Human Immunology

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 426-429

  Bonfigli, Silvana ^a   Fozza, Claudio ^a   Contini, Salvatore ^a   Buzzetti, Raffaella ^b   Cucca, Francesco ^a   Longinotti, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

null allele polymorphism; Sardinia; single nucleotide polymorphisms; T cell receptor repertoire; TCRBV20S1

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BV20S1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RESTRICTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ISOLATION BY DISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NULL ALLELE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CODON, NONSENSE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR BETA; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; ITALY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 34247201442     PISSN: 01988859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2007.01.011     Document Type: Article

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