High-resolution typing of HLA-DRB1 locus in the Macedonian population

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 486-491

  Petlichkovski, Aleksandar ^a   Efinska Mladenovska, O ^a   Trajkov, D ^a   Arsov, T ^a   Strezova, A ^a   Spiroski, M ^a  

^a SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY OF SKOPJE   (Macedonia)

Author keywords

Genetic distance; High resolution DNA typing; HLA DRB1 polymorphism; Macedonian population

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; DENMARK; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HIGH RESOLUTION DNA TYPING; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; ITALY; MACEDONIA (REPUBLIC); MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLAND; POPULATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SPAIN;

ALLELES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EXONS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MACEDONIA (REPUBLIC); PHYLOGENY;

CHRISTIA;

EID: 4744343777     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2004.00273.x     Document Type: Article

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