Null allele frequencies at HLA-G locus in Iranian healthy subjects

Iranian Journal of Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 207-211

  Rahimi, Roghayeh ^a   Hosseini, Ahmad Zavaran ^a   Yari, Fatemeh ^b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b IRANIAN BLOOD TRANSFUSION ORGANIZATION   (Iran)

Author keywords

Frequency; HLA G*0105N antigen; Iran; RFLPs

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; HLA G ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IRAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NULL ALLELE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 58149149920     PISSN: 17351383     EISSN: 1735367X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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