Genetic affinities of north and northeastern populations of India: Inference from HLA-based study

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 120-130

  Agrawal, S ^a   Srivastava, S K ^a   Borkar, M ^a   Chaudhuri, T K ^b  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH BENGAL   (India)

Author keywords

Allele frequency; Haplotype frequency; HLA; Phylogenetic reconstruction

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA DQA1 ANTIGEN; HLA DQB1 ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; INDIA; MOSLEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HLA ANTIGENS; HLA-DQ ANTIGENS; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; INDIA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GROUPS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 47549083676     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: 13990039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2008.01083.x     Document Type: Article

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