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Hanging in the balance. KIR and their role in disease.
Molecular interventions - 1 Aug 2005
Williams Anthony P, Bateman Andrew R, Khakoo Salim I
Abstract excerpt
The killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) are a recently discovered family of activating and inhibitory receptors that control natural killer (NK) cell function. KIR exist as a diverse family of receptors that have evolved rapidly by both gene duplication and recombination events. These findings were unexpected for a family of genes involved primarily in the innate immune response. These findings...
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