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Diversity of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor genes in Southern Turkey.
Molecular biology reports - 1 Feb 2012
Ozturk Ozlem Goruroglu, Polat Gurbuz, Atik Ugur
Abstract excerpt
Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) are a family of inhibitory and activating receptors expressed by natural killer (NK) cells and regulate NK cells' activity. KIR genes are highly polymorphic markers, characterized by a wide diversity, and can therefore be considered as good population genetic markers. The aim of this study was to determine KIR gene frequencies, ratios of haplotypes and genotypes in...
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