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Diversity of alleles encoding HLA-B40: relative frequencies in united states populations and description of five novel alleles.
Human immunology - 1 Aug 2000
Pimtanothai N, Rizzuto G A, Slack R, Steiner N K, Kosman C A, Jones P F, Koester R, Ng J, Hartzman R J, Katovich Hurley C
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The frequency of each B*40 allele was determined by DNA sequencing in four major United States populations: Caucasians, African Americans, Asians/Pacific Islanders, and Hispanics. Thirty-two individuals from each ethnic group, who were previously described serologically as B40, B60, or B61, were randomly selected out of a pool of 82,979 unrelated individuals for allele characterization. Out of nine different B*40...
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