A new HLA-A9 subtype lacking the Bw4 epitope. Ancestral or revertant allele?

doi:10.1016/0198-8859(94)00104-x

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A new HLA-A9 subtype lacking the Bw4 epitope. Ancestral or revertant allele?

Human immunology - 1 Mar 1995

Kashiwase K, Tokunaga K, Ishikawa Y, Lin L, Imanishi T, Akaza T, Tadokoro K, Juji T

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The HLA-A9 group has been subdivided into three serologically defined splits, A23, A24, and A2403. We have found a new HLA-A9 split antigen, tentatively called A24AK, in the Japanese population. Sequence analysis of A24AK (officially assigned A*2404) showed that this new allele was different from...

Topics

Alleles
Amino Acid Sequence
Base Sequence
Child
Female
HLA-A Antigens
HLA-A24 Antigen
HLA-B Antigens
Haplotypes
Humans
Male
Molecular Sequence Data
Phylogeny
Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational

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