The Histocompatibility System in the Warao Indians of Venezuela
- 10 December 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 194 (4270), 1135-1138
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.136748
Abstract
The Warao are a tribe of Amerindians who inhabit the Delta region of the Orinoco River in northeastern Venezuela. Histocompatibility antigen studies revealed a restricted polymorphism of HL-A, -B and -C loci and simplicity of the HLA-D locus among these people.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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