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HLA-DR and -DQB1 genotyping in a Chinese population.
European journal of immunogenetics : official journal of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics - 1 Aug 1993
Zhao Y P, Yang J Q, Ge Y, Fan L A, Loiseau P, Colombani J
Abstract excerpt
Using molecular biological methods, 58 unrelated Chinese from Shanghai were typed for HLA-DR and DQ. The Shanghai population possesses the principal HLA-DR and DQ characteristics of the oriental populations but with an increase of the DRB1*12 allele. So HLA typing of populations appears to be important not only for anthropological studies but also for transplantations and HLA associations with diseases.
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