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HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1 and -DQB1 allele and haplotype frequencies in Lebanese and their relatedness to neighboring and distant populations.
BMC genomics - 20 Jun 2022
Almawi Wassim Y, Nemr Rita, Finan Ramzi R, Saldhana F Lisa, Hajjej Abdelhafidh
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BACKGROUND: This study examined the origin of present-day Lebanese using high-resolution HLA class I and class II allele and haplotype distributions. The study subjects comprised 152 unrelated individuals, and their HLA class I and class II alleles and two-locus and five-locus haplotypes were compared with those of neighboring and distant communities using genetic distances, neighbor-joining dendrograms,...
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