HLA class II allele frequencies in the Lebanese population

Gene

Volumn 506, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 396-399

  Khansa, Sara ^a   Hoteit, Rouba ^a   Shammaa, Dina ^a   Khalek, Rabab Abdel ^a   El Halas, Hussein ^a   Greige, Layal ^a   Abbas, Fatmeh ^a   Mahfouz, Rami A R ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Alleles; Class II; Frequency; HLA; Lebanon

Indexed keywords

HLA DQB1 ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; LEBANON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HLA-A ANTIGENS; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HLA-C ANTIGENS; HLA-DQ BETA-CHAINS; HLA-DRB1 CHAINS; HUMANS; LEBANON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL;

EID: 84864557194     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2012.06.063     Document Type: Article

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