The ever-expanding list of HLA alleles: Changing HLA nomenclature and its relevance to clinical transplantation

Transplantation Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Tait, Brian D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS BLOOD SERVICE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; SEROLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 78649668546     PISSN: 0955470X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trre.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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