Article
HLA-B alleles of the Navajo: no evidence for rapid evolution in the Nadene.
Tissue antigens - 1 Feb 1996
Garber T L, McAdam S N, Butler L M, Crocker P, Piekarczyk M, Troup G M, Milford E L, Watkins D I
Abstract excerpt
New HLA-B locus alleles have been found in South American Amerindian populations but were largely absent in North American Amerindian tribes also descended from this first Paleo-Indian migration. We have now extended these studies to the Navajo, descendants of the second Nadene migration. No new...
Topics
- Alleles
- Biological Evolution
- HLA-B Antigens
- Humans
- Indians, North American