United Arab Emirates: Unusual departure from neutrality towards excess of homozygotes at the HLA-B locus

HLA. 2020 May;95(5):470-473. doi: 10.1111/tan.13774. Epub 2020 Jan 31.

Authors

Zain Al-Yafei¹, Thomas Goeury^{2

3}, Marion Alvares¹, Mohamed Al Seiari⁴, Alicia Sanchez-Mazas^{2

3}, Gehad Elghazali¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Immunology, PLMS, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
² Department of Genetics and Evolution - Anthropology Unit, AGP Laboratory, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (IGE3), Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Nephrology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

PMID: 31849190
DOI: 10.1111/tan.13774

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Alleles
Genotype
HLA-B Antigens* / genetics
Homozygote
Humans
United Arab Emirates

Substances

HLA-B Antigens