Article
HLA class I allele distribution of a Hong Kong Chinese population based on high-resolution PCR-SSOP typing.
Tissue antigens - 1 Jun 2004
Middleton D, Hawkins B R, Williams F, Meenagh A, Moscoso J, Zamora J, Arnaiz-Villena A
Abstract excerpt
A stem cell registry population from Hong Kong, of Chinese ethnicity, was examined for HLA-A and HLA-B alleles using a two-stage sequence-specific oligonucleotide probe system. Comparison of the HLA-A and HLA-B frequencies with different populations showed a close relationship with a Chinese population from Singapore, although there were several differences in the presence/absence of alleles at the HLA-B locus....
Topics
- Alleles
- Haplotypes
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I
- Hong Kong
- Phylogeny
- Polymerase Chain Reaction