Variation and linkage disequilibrium within odorant receptor gene clusters linked to the human major histocompatibility complex

Human Immunology

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 843-850

  Santos, Pablo Sandro Carvalho ^a,b   Seki Uehara, Clineu Julien ^c   Ziegler, Andreas ^a   Uchanska Ziegler, Barbara ^a   Bicalho, Maria da Graça ^c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Extended major histocompatibility factor; Linkage disequilibrium; Odorant receptor; Sequence based typing; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CELL LINE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; GENES, MHC CLASS I; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PSEUDOGENES; RECEPTORS, ODORANT;

EID: 77956011249     PISSN: 01988859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2010.06.011     Document Type: Article

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