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Gene conversion confined to a direct repeat of the acceptor splice site generates allelic diversity at human glycophorin (GYP) locus.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 15 Feb 1992
Huang C H, Kikuchi M, McCreary J, Blumenfeld O O
Abstract excerpt
The glycophorin locus (GYP) on the long arm of chromosome 4 encodes antigens of the MNSs blood group system and displays considerable allelic variation among human populations. The genomic structure and organization of a variant glycophorin allele specifying a novel Miltenberger (Mi)-related phenotype, MiX, were examined. This variant probably arose from a gene conversion event involving a direct repeat of the...
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