Twenty-three novel alleles increase diversity at the HLA-C locus

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 560-563

  Lazaro, A M ^a   Xiao, Y ^a   Cao, K ^a   Masaberg, C ^a   Nichol, L ^b   Ng, J ^a   Hurley, C K ^a   Posch, P E ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA sequencing; HLA Cw; New alleles

Indexed keywords

HLA C ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; HLA-C ANTIGENS; HUMANS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 43849113757     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: 13990039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2008.01039.x     Document Type: Article

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