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Diversity of HLA among Taiwan's indigenous tribes and the Ivatans in the Philippines.
Tissue antigens - 1 Jul 2001
Chu C C, Lin M, Nakajima F, Lee H L, Chang S L, Juji T, Tokunaga K
Abstract excerpt
Taiwan's indigenous tribes, especially the east coast tribes are not only closely related to Oceania but also with the Australian aborigines. The Ivatans of the Batan Islands in the Philippines are closely related to the Yami tribe of Taiwan as cultural and anthropological studies have shown. Many DRB1 alleles (*15021, *16021, *0404, *04051, *11011, *12021, *1401, *08032) have high allele frequencies (>20%) in...
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