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HLA frequencies in Basques in Spain and in neighbouring populations
R Calderon1, J Wentzel, D F Roberts
1Departamento de Biologia Animal y Genetica, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain.
Annals of Human Biology
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
HLA antigen and gene frequencies at the A, B, and C loci are examined in a sample of 181 Basques and 102 non-Basques in Bilbao, Spain. The most common associations of genes at the A and B loci are as in western Europe generally. The results are compared with gene frequencies in other Basque and non-Basque samples in Spain and France. There is clear distinction in gene frequency between Basques and non-Basques, to which the greatest contribution is made by A1 and B35, followed by B7, B8 and B12; and a difference between Basques in France and in Spain, notably in A28, 29, 30 and 31 and B17 and 18.