Immunogenetics as a tool in anthropological studies

Immunology - Tập 133 Số 2 - Trang 143-164 - 2011
Alicia Sanchez‐Mazas1, Marcelo Fernández-Viña2, Derek Middleton3, Jill A. Hollenbach4, Stéphane Bühler1, Da Di1, Raja Rajalingam5, Jean‐Michel Dugoujon6, Steven J. Mack4, Erik Thorsby7
1Department of Genetics and Evolution, Anthropology unit, Laboratory of Anthropology, Genetics and peopling history, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
2Department of Pathology/Blood Ctr, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA
3Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool & Transplant Immunology Laboratory, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital, Liverpool, UK
4Children׳s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, CA, USA
5UCLA Immunogenetics Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
6Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology, UMR 5288 CNRS University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse, France
7Institute of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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