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Identification of seventeen novel KIR variants: fourteen of them from two non-Caucasian donors.
Tissue antigens - 1 Jan 2001
Rajalingam R, Gardiner C M, Canavez F, Vilches C, Parham P
Abstract excerpt
The killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) expressed by human natural killer (NK) cells are encoded by a family of genes on chromosome 19. The number of KIR genes varies with haplotype and the individual genes exhibit polymorphism. To investigate KIR diversity we studied KIR cDNA and genes of four human donors: two Caucasians, one Black American and one Asian Indian. From analysis of these donors...
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