Human leukocyte antigen class I (A, B and C) allele and haplotype variation in a South African Indian population.

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In 2013, ∼1,329,300 individuals made up the South African Indian population, which constituted ∼2.5% of the total population of ∼53 million. Historically, from 1860 to 1911, indentured labourers were imported from India, to work in the sugar-cane plantations in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. The local Indian community was further augmented by "passenger" immigrants who paid for passage to South Africa. Extensive HLA...

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