HLA class II similarities in Iranian Kurds and Azeris

International Journal of Immunogenetics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 457-463

  Farjadian, S ^a,b   Ghaderi, A ^a,c  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPE; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; IRAN; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, MHC CLASS II; HAPLOTYPES; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IRAN;

EID: 36248998178     PISSN: 17443121     EISSN: 1744313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-313X.2007.00723.x     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Arnaiz-Villena, A., Dimitroski, K. Pacho, A. (2001) HLA genes in Macedonians and the sub-Saharan origin of the Greeks. Tissue Antigens, 57, 118.
2. Arnaiz-Villena, A., Iliakis, P., Gonzalez-Hevilla, M., Longas, J., Gomez-Casado, E., Sfyridaki, K., Trapaga, J., Silvera-Redondo, C., Matsouka, C. Martinez-Laso, J. (1999) The origin of Cretan populations as determined by characterization of HLA alleles. Tissue Antigens, 53, 213.
3. Arnaiz-Villena, A., Karin, M. Bendikuze, N. (2001) HLA alleles and haplotypes in the Turkish population: relatedness to Kurds, Armenians and other Mediterraneans. Tissue Antigens, 57, 308.
4. Boulonois, I. (1966) The Silk Road. Allen & Unwin, London.
5. Calafell, F. (2003) Classifying humans. Nature Genetics, 33, 435.
6. Comas, D., Calafell, F., Bendukidze, N., Fananas, L. Bertranpetit, J. (2000) Georgian and Kurd mt-DNA sequence analysis shows a lack of correlation between languages and female genetic lineages. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 112, 5.
7. Cunha-Neto, E. (1999) MHC-restricted antigen presentation and recognition: constraints on gene, recombinant and peptide vaccines in humans. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 32, 199.
8. Farjadian, S. Ghaderi, A. (2007) HLA class II genetic diversity in Arabs and Jews of Iran. Iranian Journal of Immunology, 4, 85.
9. Farjadian, S., Moqadam, F. A. Ghaderi, A. (2006) HLA class II gene polymorphism in Parsees and Zoroastrians of Iran. International Journal of Immunogenetics, 33, 185.
10. Farjadian, S., Naruse, T., Kawata, H., Ghaderi, A., Bahram, S. Inoko, H. (2004) Molecular analysis of HLA allele frequencies and haplotypes in Baloch of Iran compared with related populations of Pakistan. Tissue Antigens, 64, 581.
11. Hostler, C. W. (1993) The Turks of Central Asia. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT.
12. Inoko, H. Ota, M. (1993) PCR/RFLP. In : Handbook of HLA Typing Techniques (ed. K. M. Hui J. L. Bidwell p. 9. CRC Press Inc., Boca Raton, FL.
13. Ivaskova, E. Bendukidze, N. (2004) Czech HLA Allele Frequencies, Database of Major Histocompatibility Complex (dbmhc). National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, MD), IHWG Anthropology Project, available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mhc/.
14. Lee, T. D., Lee, A. Shi, W. X. (1991) HLA-A-B-DR-DQ antigens in black North Americans. Tissue Antigens, 37, 79.
15. Lee, K. W., Oh, D. H., Lee, C. Yang, S. Y. (2005) Allelic and haplotypic diversity of HLA-A, B, C, DRB1, and DQB1 genes in the Korean population. Tissue Antigens, 65, 437.
16. Lin, J. H., Liu, Z. H., Lv, F. J., Fu, Y. G., Fan, X. L., Li, S. Y., Lu, J. M., Liu, X. Y. Xu, A. L. (2003) Molecular analyses of HLA-DRB1-DPB1, and -DQB1 in Jing ethnic minority of southwest China. Human Immunology, 64, 830.
17. Lipsitch, M., Bergstrom, C. T. Antia, R. (2003) Effect of human leukocyte antigen heterozygosity on infectious disease outcome: the need for allele-specific measures. BMC Medical Genetics, 4, 2.
18. Lockwood, W. B. (1972) A Panorama of Indo-European Languages. Hutchinson Ltd, London.
19. Longmate, J., York, J., La Rosa, C., Krishnan, R., Zhang, M., Senitzer, D. Diamond, D. J. (2001) Population coverage by HLA class-I restricted cytotoxic T-lymphocyte epitopes. Immunogenetics, 52, 165.
20. Lorentz, J. (1995) Historical Dictionary of Iran. Scarecrow Press, Metuchen.
21. Martinez-Laso, J., Sartakova, M., Allende, L., Konenkov, V., Moscoso, J., Silvera-Redondo, C., Pacho, A., Trapaga, J., Gomez-Casado, E. Arnaiz-Villena, A. (2001) HLA molecular markers in Tuvinians: a population with both Oriental and Caucasoid characteristics. Annals of Human Genetics, 65, 245.
22. Miller, S. A., Dykes, D. D. Polesky, H. F. (1988) A simple salting out procedure for extracting DNA from human nucleated cells. Nucleic Acids Research, 11, 1215.
23. Momeni, D. A. (1975) The Population of Iran - a Dynamic Analysis. Pahlavi University Publications, Tehran, Iran.
24. Muro, M., Marin, L., Torio, A., Moya-Quiles, M. R., Minguela, A., Rosique-Roman, J., Sanchis, M. J., Garcia-Calatayud, M. C., Garcia-Alonso, A. M. Alvarez-Lopez, M. R. (2001) HLA polymorphism in the Murcia population (Spain): in the cradle of the archaeologic Iberians. Human Immunology, 62, 910.
25. Nebel, A., Filon, D., Brinkmann, B., Majumder, P. P., Faerman, M. Oppenheim, A. (2001) The Y chromosome pool of Jews as part of the genetic landscape of the Middle East. American Journal of Human Genetics, 69, 1095.
26. Papassavas, E. C., Spyropoulou-Vlachou, M., Papassavas, A. C., Schipper, R. F., Doxiadis, I. N. Stavropoulos-Giokas, C. (2000) MHC class I and class II phenotype, gene, and haplotype frequencies in Greeks using molecular typing data. Human Immunology, 61, 615.
27. Pelletiere, S. (1984) The Kurds: an Unstable Element in the Gulf. Westview Press, Boulder, CO.
28. Petersdorf, E. W. Malkki, M. (2005) Human leukocyte antigen matching in unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplantation. Seminars in Hematology, 42, 76.
29. Petrone, A., Bugawan, T. L., Mesturino, C. A., Nistico, L., Galgani, A., Giorgi, G., Cascino, I., Erlich, H. A., Di Mario, U. Buzzetti, R. (2001) The distribution of HLA class II susceptible/protective haplotypes could partially explain the low incidence of type 1 diabetes in continental Italy (Lazio region). Tissue Antigens, 58, 385.
30. Rajalingam, R., Krausa, P., Shilling, H. G., Stein, J. B., Balamurugan, A., McGinnis, M. D., Cheng, N. W., Mehra, N. K. Parham, P. (2002) Distinctive KIR and HLA diversity in a panel of north Indian Hindus. Immunogenetics, 53, 1009.
31. Saito, S., Ota, S., Yamada, E., Inoko, H. Ota, M. (2000) Allele frequencies and haplotypic associations defined by allelic DNA typing at HLA class I and class II loci in the Japanese population. Tissue Antigens, 56, 522.
32. Saitou, N. Nei, M. (1987) The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 4, 406.
33. Sanchez-Velasco, P., Gomez-Casado, E., Martinez-Laso, J., Zamora, J., Lowy, E., Silvera, C., Cemborain, A., Leyva-Cobian, F. Arnaiz-Villena, A. (2003) HLA alleles in isolated populations from North Spain: origin of the Basques and the ancient Iberians. Tissue Antigens, 61, 384.
34. Sanchez-Velasco, P. Leyva-Cobian, F. (2001) The HLA class I and class II allele frequencies studied at the DNA level in the Svanetian population (upper Caucasus) and their relationships to western European populations. Tissue Antigens, 58, 223.
35. Saruhan-Direskeneli, G., Uyar, F. A., Bakar, S. Eraksoy, M. (2000) Molecular analysis of HLA-DRB1-DQA1 and - DQB1 polymorphism in Turkey. Tissue Antigens, 55, 171.
36. Svejgaard, A. Ryder, L. P. (1994) HLA and disease associations: detecting the strongest association. Tissue Antigens, 43, 18.
37. Uinuk-Ool, T. S., Takezaki, N., Sukernik, R. I., Nagl, S. Klein, J. (2002) Origin and affinities of indigenous Siberian populations as revealed by HLA class II gene frequencies. Human Genetics, 110, 209.
38. Vidan-Jeras, B., Jurca, B., Dolzan, V., Jeras, M., Breskvar, K. Bohinjec, M. (2004) Slovenian HLA allele frequencies. Database of Major Histocompatibility Complex (DBMHC). National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, MD), available at IHWG Anthropology project, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mhc/.
39. Zhou, L., Lin, B., Xie, Y., Liu, Z., Yan, W. Xu, A. (2005) Polymorphism of human leukocyte antigen DRB1, DQB1, and DPB1 genes of Shandong Han population in China. Tissue Antigens, 66, 37.