The paper discusses the salience of class in Britain in relation to the experiment of the BBC-academic partnership of the Great British Class Survey (GBCS). It addresses the claimed inauguration of a third phase in class analysis in the UK sparked by the experiment. This is done by considering three main issues. First, the GBCS experiment is situated in the context of various explorations of cu...

The aim of this study was to examine frequencies and haplotypic associations of HLA class II alleles in autochthonous population of Gorski kotar (Croatia). HLA-DRB1, -DQA1 and -DQB1 alleles were determined by DNA based PCR typing in 63 unrelated inhabitants from Gorski kotar whose parents and ancestors were born and lived in tested area for at least over four generations. A total of 13 HLA-DRB1...

from 1996 to 2002, fifty three patients with major beta-thalassemia received allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell trans plantation (pbsct). median age was 6 years .twenty two were class i, 17 class ii and 14 class iii. all of the donors were hla-identical. conditioning regimen for class i and ii patients consisted of cyclophosphamide (cy) 50 mg/kg/day for 4 days + busulfan (bu) 3.5 mg/kg for 4...

The sequence of HLA-B*27:133 differs from HLA-B*27:05:02 by one nucleotide change within exon 3.