Antigen-presenting genes and genomic copy number variations in the Tasmanian devil MHC

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Cheng, Yuanyuan ^a   Stuart, Andrew ^b   Morris, Katrina ^a   Taylor, Robyn ^c   Siddle, Hannah ^a,d   Deakin, Janine ^e   Jones, Menna ^f   Amemiya, Chris T ^b   Belov, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Copy number variation; Devil facial tumour disease; MHC; Tasmanian devil

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING GENE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4Q; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1 GENE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2 GENE; MALE; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PSEUDOGENE; SARCOPHILUS HARRISII; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

METATHERIA; SARCOPHILUS HARRISII;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MHC CLASS I; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENOME; HAPLOTYPES; MARSUPIALIA; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES;

EID: 84857979790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-87     Document Type: Article

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