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Defining the allelic variants of HLA A19 in the western Indian population.
Human immunology - 1 Sept 2002
Shankarkumar Umapathy, Ghosh Kanjaksha, Mohanty Dipika
Abstract excerpt
The population of western India is described as Australoid or proto-Australoid (elements) with Indo-Aryan racial admixture. The present study was undertaken to investigate the genetic diversity of human leukocyte antigen (HLA A19) in Western Indians, and to determine the frequency distribution of its molecular subtypes at the population level. The study revealed a high occurrence of A*3303 (56%) in this...
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