Article
Relative frequencies of DRB1*11 alleles and their DRB3 associations in five major population groups in a United States bone marrow registry.
Human immunology - 1 Aug 2000
Tang T F, Huang A Y, Pappas A, Slack R, Ng J, Hartzman R J, Hurley C K
Abstract excerpt
One hundred sixty-one individuals from each of five US population groups, Caucasians (CAU), African Americans (AFA), Asians/Pacific Islanders (API), Hispanics (HIS), and Native Americans (NAT), were randomly selected from a volunteer bone marrow registry database consisting of 14,452 HLA-DRB1*11 positive individuals. This sampling provided at least an 80% probability of detecting a rare allele that occurred at 1%...
Topics
- Black or African American
- Alleles
- Bone Marrow
- Databases, Factual
- Ethnicity
- Gene Frequency
- HLA-DR Antigens
- HLA-DRB1 Chains
- HLA-DRB3 Chains
- Haplotypes
- Hispanic or Latino
