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SUBMITTER: Arlehamn CS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5519768 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Arlehamn Cecilia S Lindestam CS Copin Richard R Leary Shay S Mack Steven J SJ Phillips Elizabeth E Mallal Simon S Sette Alessandro A Blatner Gretta G Siefers Heather H Ernst Joel D JD
Human immunology 20170316 4
One hundred healthy infants enrolled as controls in a tuberculosis vaccine study in Nyanza Province, Kenya provided anonymized samples for DNA sequence-based typing at the HLA-A, -B, -C, -DPB1, -DQA1, -DQB1, -DRB1, and -DRB3/4/5 loci. The purpose of the study was to characterize allele frequencies in the local population, to support studies of T cell immunity against pathogens, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis. There are no detectable deviations from Hardy Weinberg proportions for the HLA-B, ...[more]