The evolution and diversity of TNF block haplotypes in European, Asian and Australian aboriginal populations

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 607-615

  Valente, F P ^a,b   Tan, C R T ^b   Temple, S E ^c   Phipps, M ^d   Witt, C S ^e   Kaur, G ^f   Gut, I ^g   McGinn, S ^g   Allcock, R J N ^b   Chew, C S N ^b   Price, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^e ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^g CENTRE NATIONAL DE GÉNOTYPAGE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; AUSTRALIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; ETHNICITY; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTORS;

EID: 70350261756     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: 14765470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/gene.2009.45     Document Type: Article

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