HLA Class I and Class II Conserved Extended Haplotypes and Their Fragments or Blocks in Mexicans: Implications for the Study of Genetic Diversity in Admixed Populations

• Joaquín Zúñiga ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joaquín Zúñiga, Neng Yu, Rodrigo Barquera, Sharon Alosco

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Neng Yu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joaquín Zúñiga, Neng Yu, Rodrigo Barquera, Sharon Alosco

  Affiliation HLA Laboratory, The American Red Cross Northeast Division, Dedham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Rodrigo Barquera ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joaquín Zúñiga, Neng Yu, Rodrigo Barquera, Sharon Alosco

  Affiliation Molecular Genetics Laboratory, National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Sharon Alosco ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joaquín Zúñiga, Neng Yu, Rodrigo Barquera, Sharon Alosco

  Affiliation HLA Laboratory, The American Red Cross Northeast Division, Dedham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Marina Ohashi,

  Affiliation HLA Laboratory, The American Red Cross Northeast Division, Dedham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Tatiana Lebedeva,

  Affiliation HLA Laboratory, The American Red Cross Northeast Division, Dedham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Víctor Acuña-Alonzo,

  Affiliation Molecular Genetics Laboratory, National School of Anthropology and History, Mexico City, Mexico

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• María Yunis,

  Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Julio Granados-Montiel,

  Affiliation Tissue Engineering, Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine Research Unit, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Alfredo Cruz-Lagunas,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Gilberto Vargas-Alarcón,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Genomics, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Tatiana S. Rodríguez-Reyna,

  Affiliation Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Marcelo Fernandez-Viña,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Julio Granados ,

  * E-mail: Edmond_yunis@dfci.harvard.edu (EJY); julgrate@yahoo.com (JG)

  Affiliation Department of Transplantation, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico

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• Edmond J. Yunis

  * E-mail: Edmond_yunis@dfci.harvard.edu (EJY); julgrate@yahoo.com (JG)

  Affiliation Department of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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