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1Tissue Typing Laboratory, New Zealand Blood Service, Auckland, New Zealand. paul.dunn@nzblood.co.nz
Tissue Antigens
|September 18, 2007
Abstract:
A*340102 was first identified in an ASEATTA Educational DNA typing sample, which typed as A*3401, 3401variant. The variant differs from A*3401 by a single silent substitution in exon 2 at nucleotide 309, codon 79 (GGG-->GGT).
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