Article
HLA diversity among Nadars, a primitive Dravidian caste of South India.
Tissue antigens - 1 Dec 2003
Shankarkumar U, Sridharan B, Pitchappan R M
Abstract excerpt
South India is one of the oldest geophysical regions mainly occupied by Dravidian language-speaking people. Here a random panel of 61 unrelated Nadar healthy individual from Tamil Nadu State were analyzed and compared with other populations of India and the world. HLA-A, B and C alleles frequencies and their haplotype frequencies were determined by high-resolution typing of genomic DNA. The analysis revealed that...
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