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Functional characterization and exon 2-intron 2-exon 3 gene sequence of HLA-B*2712 as found in a British family.
European journal of immunogenetics : official journal of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics - 1 Dec 1998
Hemmatpour S K, Dunn P P, Evans P R, Green A, Howell W M
Abstract excerpt
The HLA-B*27 group of alleles has been extensively studied due to the association of particular B*27 alleles with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). We describe here an HLA-B*27 allele (B*2712) encoding an antigen that lacks reactivity with B27 monoclonal antibodies (moabs) and alloantisera but reacts with some B40/B60 moabs and alloantisera and expresses the Bw6 public epitope. This allele was discovered by the...
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