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T-cell and chemokine receptor variation in south Amerindian populations.
American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council - 1 Jan 2000
Hünemeier Tabita, Neves Andrei G, Nornberg Igor, Hill Kim, Hurtado A Magdalena, Carnese Francisco R, Goicoechea Alicia S, Hutz Mara H, Salzano Francisco M, Chies José A B
Abstract excerpt
The immune response of relatively small, endogamous populations is of special interest, because they may differ from those of large, ethnically diverse, urban groups. As a contribution to this area of investigation, we tested 99 individuals from two Brazilian native populations for two T-cell receptor gene segments (TCRBV3S1 and TCRBV18) and 241 subjects from eight tribes of this ethnic group in relation to the...
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