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KIR haplotypes are associated with late-onset type 1 diabetes in European-American families.
Genes and immunity - 1 Jan 2000
Traherne J A, Jiang W, Valdes A M, Hollenbach J A, Jayaraman J, Lane J A, Johnson C, Trowsdale J, Noble J A
Abstract excerpt
Classical human leukocyte antigens (HLA) genes confer the strongest, but not the only, genetic susceptibility to type 1 diabetes. Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR), on natural killer (NK) cells, bind ligands including class I HLA. We examined presence or absence, with copy number, of KIR loci in 1698 individuals, from 339 multiplex type 1 diabetes families, from the Human Biological Data...
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