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Genomics and diversity of the common marmoset monkey NK complex.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Jun 2007
Averdam Anne, Kuhl Heiner, Sontag Mario, Becker Tamara, Hughes Austin L, Reinhardt Richard, Walter Lutz
Abstract excerpt
The common marmoset monkey (Callithrix jacchus) is a New World primate that is increasingly used in biomedical research as a model organism. Due to the occurrence of natural bone marrow chimerism, it represents a particularly useful primate model in immunological research. In this study, we describe the genomic organization of the CD94, NKG2, and LY49L genes in the NK complex (NKC) of the common marmoset based on...
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