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kir-mapper: A Toolkit for Killer-Cell Immunoglobulin-Like Receptor (KIR) Genotyping From Short-Read Second-Generation Sequencing Data.
HLA - 1 Mar 2025
Castelli Erick C, Pereira Raphaela Neto, Paes Gabriela Sato, Andrade Heloisa S, Ferreira Marcel Rodrigues, de Freitas Santos Ícaro Scalisse, Vince Nicolas, Pollock Nicholas R, Norman Paul J, Meyer Diogo
Abstract excerpt
Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) regulate natural killer (NK) cell responses by activating or inhibiting their functions. Genotyping KIR genes from short-read second-generation sequencing data remains challenging as cross-alignments among genes and alignment failure arise from gene similarities and extreme polymorphism. Several bioinformatics pipelines and programs, including PING and T1K, have...
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