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Vargas-Alarcón G, Hernández-Pacheco G, Zuñiga J, Rodríguez-Pérez JM, Pérez-Hernández N, Rangel C, Villarreal-Garza C, Martínez-Laso J, Granados J, Arnaiz-Villena A. Distribution of HLA-B alleles in Mexican Amerindian populations. Immunogenetics 2003; 54:756-60. [PMID: 12618907 DOI: 10.1007/s00251-002-0522-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2002] [Revised: 10/29/2002] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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In the present study we analyzed by PCR-SSO technique the HLA-B gene frequencies in 281 healthy individuals from four Mexican Amerindian populations (66 Mayos, 90 Mazatecans, 72 Nahuas and 53 Teenek). The most frequent alleles in all studied populations were HLA-B35, HLA-B39, and HLA-B40; however, some differences were observed between populations. The HLA-B35 allele was the most frequent in three of the four populations studied (Mayos, Nahuas and Teenek), whereas in Mazatecans the most frequent allele was HLA-B39. HLA-B40 presented frequencies higher than 10% in all groups. On the other hand, only Mayos presented an HLA-B51 gene frequency higher than 10%. When comparisons were made, important differences between groups were observed. The Teenek group presented an increased frequency of HLA-B35 when compared to Mazatecans and the HLA-B52 allele was increased in Nahuas and Teenek when compared to Mayos. An increased frequency of HLA-B39 was observed in Mazatecans when compared to Nahuas, Mayos and Teenek. Also, an increased frequency of HLA-B51 was observed in Mayos when compared to Mazatecans and Nahuas. These data corroborate the restricted polymorphism of HLA-B alleles and the high frequency of HLA-B35, HLA-B39 and HLA-B40 alleles in autochthonous American populations. In spite of the restriction in this polymorphism, differences in frequencies of HLA-B alleles could be helpful in distinguishing each of these populations.
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- Gilberto Vargas-Alarcón
- Physiology Department, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City, Mexico.
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A review was made in relation to the molecular variability present in North, Central, and South American Indian populations. It involved results from ancient DNA, mitochondrial DNA in extant populations, HLA and other autosomal markers, X and Y chromosome variation, as well as data from parasitic viruses which could show coevolutionary changes. The questions considered were their origin, ways in which the early colonization of the continent took place, types and levels of the variability which developed, peculiarities of the Amerindian evolutionary processes, and eventual genetic heterogeneity which evolved in different geographical areas. Although much information is already available, it is highly heterogeneous in relation to populations and types of genetic systems investigated. Unfortunately, the present trend of favoring essentially applied research suggest that the situation will not basically improve in the future.
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- Francisco M Salzano
- Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS.
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Loeza F, Vargas-Alarcón G, Andrade F, Vergara Y, Rodríguez-Pérez JM, Ruiz-Morales JA, Alarcón-Segovia D, Granados J. Distribution of class I and class III MHC antigens in the Tarasco Amerindians. Hum Immunol 2002; 63:143-8. [PMID: 11821162 DOI: 10.1016/s0198-8859(01)00371-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Class I and class III major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigen frequencies were analyzed in 130 haplotypes from 33 families belonging to a group of Amerindians culturally and linguistically isolated for more than 12 centuries in Mexico: the Tarascos. The most frequent antigens in this ethnic group of the HLA-A locus are: A2 (gf 0.353), A24 (gf = 0.223), A31 (gf = 0.184), and A28 (gf = 0.161); and the most frequent of the HLA-B locus are: B35 (gf = 0.230), B39 (gf = 0.192), B15 (gf = 0.146), and B5 (gf = 0.123). On the other hand, class III antigens demonstrated relatively high frequencies of the SC31 (frequency = 0.561), SC01 (frequency = 0.076), and SC42 (frequency = 0.069) complotypes. Also important was the relatively high frequency of the HLA-B27 antigen (gf 0.061) and the SC33 complotype (frequency = 0.046), which are either absent or found infrequently in other Amerindian groups. Analysis of MHC haplotypes revealed that four of them have relatively high frequencies, these were the following: [B39;SC31] (11.6%), [B35;SC31] (11.6%), [B15;SC31] (8.0%), and [B5;SC31] (5.8%). Other MHC haplotypes had frequencies lower than 5.0%. The decreased frequency of BF alleles other than BF*S and the presence of the SC33 and SC32 complotypes suggest long time preservation from genetic admixture. This information withstands the basis for population genetic analysis and disease association studies in Mexican mestizos.
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- Francisco Loeza
- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México City, México
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Silva B, Vargas-Alarcón G, Zúñiga-Ramos J, Rodríguez-Reyna TS, Hernández-Martinez B, Osnaya N, Kofman S, Torres-Lobatón A, Granados J. Genetic features of Mexican women predisposing to cancer of the uterine cervix. Hum Pathol 1999; 30:626-8. [PMID: 10374768 DOI: 10.1016/s0046-8177(99)90085-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Cervical carcinoma is the most common neoplasia in Mexican women. Previous studies report association of this neoplasia with the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigens in Caucasians. In the present study, we compared antigen frequencies of class I and class II MHC phenotypes in patients and ethnically matched healthy controls. Patients had significantly increased frequencies of HLA-A2 (PC = .000003) and HLA-DR5 (PC = .01) as compared with healthy controls. Conversely, we found a significant decrease of HLA-DR6 (PC = .01), HLA-DR2 (PC = .0005) and HLA-DR1 (PC = .0009) as compared with healthy controls. These results confirm some previous studies on HLA-associations with cervical carcinoma and reinforce the theory of independent mechanisms of MHC class I and class II genes in the etiopathogenesis of this disease.
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- B Silva
- Department of Genetics and Oncology, Hospital General de México, Mexico City
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Marcos CY, Fernández-Viña MA, Lázaro AM, Moraes ME, Moraes JR, Stastny P. Novel HLA-A and HLA-B alleles in South American Indians. TISSUE ANTIGENS 1999; 53:476-85. [PMID: 10372543 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.1999.530504.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) complex includes the most polymorphic genes in humans. More than 600 allelic variants have been described in different populations. The HLA-B locus has contributed the largest number of alleles. Although Native American populations display a restricted number of HLA-alleles, many novel HLA class I alleles have been identified in indigenous communities of Central and South America. We have studied 248 unrelated individuals from three tribes of North-East Argentina and one from South-West Brazil, as well as 80 related individuals from the Brazilian tribe. In the course of this work, we found 8 new B-locus alleles and 2 novel A-locus alleles in these populations. Here we report the nucleotide sequences of A*0219, A*0222, B*3519, B*3520, B*3521, B*3912, B*4009 and B*4803 and we show their relationship with similar alleles. The new alleles B*35092 and B*3518 have been described by us in a previous paper. The possible mechanisms that may have produced these alleles over evolutionary time are discussed.
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- C Y Marcos
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235-8886, USA
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Cadavid LF, Watkins DI. Heirs of the jaguar and the anaconda: HLA, conquest and disease in the indigenous populations of the Americas. TISSUE ANTIGENS 1997; 50:702-11. [PMID: 9458134 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1997.tb02940.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- L F Cadavid
- Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53715, USA
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Cadavid LF, Watkins DI. Heirs of the jaguar and the anaconda: HLA, conquest and disease in the indigenous populations of the Americas. TISSUE ANTIGENS 1997; 50:209-18. [PMID: 9331944 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1997.tb02865.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- L F Cadavid
- Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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Iwanaga KK, Eberle M, Kolman CJ, Bermingham E, Watkins DI. Further diversification of the HLA-B locus in Central American Amerindians: new B*39 and B*51 alleles in the Kuna of Panama. TISSUE ANTIGENS 1997; 50:251-7. [PMID: 9331947 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1997.tb02868.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Several new HLA-B locus alleles have been discovered in South American Amerindians. By contrast, analysis of the MHC class I alleles of North American native populations has revealed few new HLA-B alleles. This suggests that the HLA-B locus is evolving rapidly in South American populations. Here we describe the HLA-B locus alleles present in individuals from a Central American tribe, the Kuna of Panama. Using a sequence-based typing technique that separates alleles by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) followed by direct sequencing, we determined the HLA-B alleles from eight Kunas. Two of the HLA-B alleles present in the Kuna have been previously described in other South American Amerindian populations; one allele has been characterized in a Mexican-American. We characterized two new HLA-B alleles in the Kuna, HLA-B*3911 and HLA-B*5110. HLA-B*3911 differed from HLA-B*3905 by only a single nucleotide substitution in exon 3. This substitution resulted in an amino acid replacement of leucine by arginine at residue 156 in the alpha 2 domain. Such a change may affect the repertoire of peptides that are bound by this molecule. HLA-B*5110 differed significantly from other HLA-B*51 alleles in that it is the result of an unusually large intra-locus recombination event of minimally 216 nucleotides. This recombination results in an allele that is part HLA-B*51 and part HLA-B*40. Thus, more dramatic recombination events may also play a role in the rapid evolution of the HLA-B locus in Amerindians.
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- K K Iwanaga
- Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
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Parham P, Arnett KL, Adams EJ, Little AM, Tees K, Barber LD, Marsh SG, Ohta T, Markow T, Petzl-Erler ML. Episodic evolution and turnover of HLA-B in the indigenous human populations of the Americas. TISSUE ANTIGENS 1997; 50:219-32. [PMID: 9331945 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1997.tb02866.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Nucleotide sequences were determined for the HLA-A, B and C alleles of three populations of Amerindians: the Havasupai tribe from North America, and the Guarani and Kaingang tribes from South America. All 15 Havasupai alleles are found in Eastern Hemisphere populations, whereas the Guarani and Kaingang each have six alleles that appear to be present only in the Western Hemisphere. Nine of the "new" alleles come from HLA-B, one comes from HLA-A and one from HLA-C: ten appear to be the result of recombination and one the result of point substitution. Of the 14 Guarani alleles and 16 Kaingang alleles, only four are held in common. Despite their differences, the three tribes possess comparable numbers of HLA class I alleles, revealing a trend for "allele turnover", in which new alleles tends to supplant older alleles rather than supplement them. Although many new HLA-B alleles have been produced in Latin America, their net effect has been to differentiate populations, not to increase allele diversity within a population. From sequence comparisons, the Amerindian subset of HLA class I allotypes appears to cover the overall ranges of peptide binding specificity, natural killer-cell interactions, and CD8 interactions, that are found in all HLA class I. The recombinations that produced the new alleles of the Kaingang and Guarani class I are predicted to have modulated these functional properties rather than radically change them. Exchange of Bw4 and Bw6 motifs by recombination are noticeably absent in the events forming new alleles in America, whereas they have been the most common of recombinations elsewhere.
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- P Parham
- Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USA
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Fernández-Viña MA, Lázaro AM, Marcos CY, Nulf C, Raimondi E, Haas EJ, Stastny P. Dissimilar evolution of B-locus versus A-locus and class II loci of the HLA region in South American Indian tribes. TISSUE ANTIGENS 1997; 50:233-50. [PMID: 9331946 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1997.tb02867.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Native American populations have a limited HLA polymorphism compared with other ethnic groups. In spite of this, many novel HLA-B locus alleles, not observed in other populations, have been identified in South American tribes, and rapid evolution of this locus has been suggested. We have studied unrelated subjects of the Toba (TOB n = 116), Wichi (WIC n = 46) and Pilaga (PIL n = 14) tribes from northeastern Argentina to investigate the extent of the HLA polymorphism and obtain clues of selective forces that may have acted in these populations. In these tribes the number of HLA alleles is small at all loci except HLA-B, which presents 22 alleles. Seven novel alleles were characterized including 5 of HLA-B (B*35092, B*3518, B*3519, B*4009, B*4803) 1 at HLA-A (A*0219) and 1 at DRB1 (DRB1*0417). All these variants may have arisen by gene conversion events. Some of the novel variants represent the most frequent alleles of these populations (B*4803 in TOB and PIL; B*3519 in WIC) or are the most frequent subtypes in their lineages. HLA-A, B, DRB1,DQA1 and DQB1, but not DPB1, display relatively similar gene frequencies. This results in high heterozygosity in all the tribes for all the loci studied except HLA-DPB1. The larger polymorphism and the generation and maintenance of novel alleles at the HLA-B locus suggests a more specialized response of this locus to evolutionary forces. These effects may be related to the nature of the polymorphism, to the number of founder alleles and to the functional characteristics of the individual alleles.
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- M A Fernández-Viña
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA
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Bodmer JG, Marsh SG, Albert ED, Bodmer WF, Bontrop RE, Charron D, Dupont B, Erlich HA, Fauchet R, Mach B, Mayr WR, Parham P, Sasazuki T, Schreuder GMT, Strominger JL, Svejgaard A, Terasaki PI. Nomenclature for Factors of the HLA System, 1996. Vox Sang 1997. [DOI: 10.1046/j.1423-0410.1997.7320105.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Marcos CY, Fernández-Vina MA, Lázaro AM, Nulf CJ, Raimondi EH, Stastny P. Novel HLA-B35 subtypes: putative gene conversion events with donor sequences from alleles common in native Americans (HLA-B*4002 or B*4801). Hum Immunol 1997; 53:148-55. [PMID: 9129972 DOI: 10.1016/s0198-8859(97)00035-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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In a study of 523 normal subjects of differing ethnic groups, including 189 South American Indians, we have described novel hybridization pattern corresponding to 22 potentially new HLA-B locus alleles. Three of these alleles were subtypes of B35. The locally, assigned alleles, B-3504v, B-3505v, and B-3508v have been sequenced and were officially designated as B*3512, B*3517, and B*3518, respectively. In addition, we determined the nucleotide sequence of another new variant, locally designated B-3509.2. B*3517, was found in 3 individuals (2 Hispanic, 1 Caucasian), it differs from B*3505 by 3 nucleotide substitutions that lead to changes in residues 94, 95, and 103. B*3517 differs from B*3501 in residues 97 and 103. B*3518 was found in 7 South American Indian individuals (6 of 124 Toba Indians, 1 of 18 Pilaga Indians). It differs from B*3509 by 2 silent nucleotide substitutions and by one nonsynonymous substitution in codon 156 (Arg-->Leu). B*3512 differs from B*3504 by 3 nucleotides, one of them leading to a substitution in residue 103 (Val-->Leu). B*3509 was observed in 3 individuals from the Wichi tribe. The nucleotide sequence of one of these was determined and was found to differ from B*35091 by two synonymous nucleotide substitutions. The distinguishing amino acid substitutions in residues 95, 97, and 156 contribute to the structure of specificity pockets F, C, and E, and D and E respectively, therefore, it is possible that some of the new alleles may have different peptide binding profiles. It has been shown that differences at residue 156 may elicit different allorecognition and mediate graft-versus-host disease and rejection in bone marrow transplantation. The mechanisms for the generation of these novel alleles may involve gene conversion events in which short exon-3 segments from the common Native American alleles B*4002 or B*4801 were inserted in HLA-B35 backbone structures. The novel allele B*3518 is closely related to B*35092 and to B*3508. Two alternative hypotheses for its generation can be suggested, the most plausible one would involve B*35092, the putative progenitor of B*3518, since both alleles are prevalent in the same Indian tribes.
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- C Y Marcos
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA
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Bodmer JG, Marsh SG, Albert ED, Bodmer WF, Bontrop RE, Charron D, Dupont B, Erlich HA, Fauchet R, Mach B, Mayr WR, Parham P, Sasazuki T, Schreuder GM, Strominger JL, Svejgaard A, Terasaki PI. Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, 1996. TISSUE ANTIGENS 1997; 49:297-321. [PMID: 9098945 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1997.tb02759.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 257] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- J G Bodmer
- ICRF Cancer and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom.
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Bodmer JG, Marsh SG, Albert ED, Bodmer WF, Bontrop RE, Charron D, Dupont B, Erlich HA, Fauchet R, Mach B, Mayr WR, Parham P, Sasazuki T, Schreuder GM, Strominger JL, Svejgaard A, Terasaki PI. Nomenclature for factors of the HLA System, 1996. Hum Immunol 1997; 53:98-128. [PMID: 9127153 DOI: 10.1016/s0198-8859(97)00031-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- J G Bodmer
- ICRF Cancer and Immunogenetics Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Vargas-Alarcon G, Martinez-Laso J, Gomez-Casado E, Granados J, Diaz-Campos N, Varela P, Alvarez M, Arnaiz-Villena A. A novel HLA-B35 (B*3517) allele found in a Mexican of Otomi descent. TISSUE ANTIGENS 1996; 47:547-50. [PMID: 8813744 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1996.tb02597.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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- G Vargas-Alarcon
- Department of Immunology, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
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Vargas-Alarcón G, Alvarez M, Martinez-Laso J, Granados J, Diaz-Campos N, Gomez-Casado E, Alcocer-Varela J, Arnaiz-Villena A. A new HLA-B35 (B*3516) allele found in a Mexican of Nahua (Aztec) descent. Immunogenetics 1996; 43:244-5. [PMID: 8575828 DOI: 10.1007/bf00587310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- G Vargas-Alarcón
- Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Hospital 12 de Octubre, Universidad Complutense, Carretera Andalucia, 28041 Madrid, Spain
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