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HLA genes in Uros from Titikaka Lake, Peru: origin and relationship with other Amerindians and worldwide populations.
International journal of immunogenetics - 1 Jun 2009
Arnaiz-Villena A, Gonzalez-Alcos V, Serrano-Vela J I, Reguera R, Barbolla L, Parga-Lozano C, Gómez-Prieto P, Abd-El-Fatah-Khalil S, Moscoso J
Abstract excerpt
Uros population from the Titikaka Lake live in about 42 floating reed ('totora') islands in front of Puno City (Peru) at a 4000 m high altiplano. They present both an mtDNA and a human leucocyte antigen (HLA) profile different from the surrounding populations: mtDNA A2 haplogroup is common to Uros and Amazon forest lowland Amerindians. HLA genetic distances between populations have been calculated and...
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