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Distribution of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor genes in the Chinese Han population.
Tissue antigens - 1 Jun 2005
Jiang K, Zhu F-M, Lv Q-F, Yan L-X
Abstract excerpt
Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) on natural killer cells recognize groups of HLA class I alleles. Seventeen KIR genes have been identified at present, and two kinds of KIR haplotypes (group A and B) have been described based on their gene contents. Immunogenetic analysis of different ethnic populations shows significant differences in terms of the distribution of group A and B haplotypes. Here,...
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