HLA allele and haplotype frequencies in the Albanian population and their relationship with the other European populations

International Journal of Immunogenetics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 337-343

  Sulcebe, G ^a   Sanchez Mazas, A ^b   Tiercy, J M ^c   Shyti, E ^a   Mone, I ^a   Ylli, Z ^a   Kardhashi, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CENTER MOTHER TERESA   (Albania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN;

ALBANIA; ARTICLE; BULGARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; MACEDONIA (REPUBLIC); NORMAL HUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERBIA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); ALGORITHM; ALLELE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EUROPE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE;

ALBANIA; ALGORITHMS; ALLELES; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROZYGOTE; HLA ANTIGENS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 75549091931     PISSN: 17443121     EISSN: 1744313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-313X.2009.00868.x     Document Type: Article

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