The distribution of major histocompatibility complex class I polymorphic Alu insertions and their associations with HLA alleles in a Chinese population from Malaysia

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 136-143

  Dunn, D S ^a   Choy, M K ^b   Phipps, M E ^b   Kulski, J K ^a,c  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alu; Dimorphism; Haplotype; Human leucocyte antigen A alleles; Major histocompatibility complex

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA A11 ANTIGEN; HLA A24 ANTIGEN; HLA A33 ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC MARKER; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALAYSIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THAILAND;

ALLELES; ALU ELEMENTS; CHINA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 34347369531     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: 13990039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2007.00868.x     Document Type: Article

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