The human natural killer gene complex is located on chromosome 12p12-p13

Immunogenetics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 307-311

  Renedo, Mónica ^a   Arce, Ignacio ^a   Rodríguez, Antonio ^a   Carretero, Marta ^a   Lanier, Lewis L ^b   López Botet, Miguel ^a   Fernández Ruiz, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; DNA; DNA MARKER; GLYCOPROTEIN; LECTIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 12P; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 6; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGENETICS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD94; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, T-LYMPHOCYTE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LECTINS; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; RATS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; RECEPTORS, MITOGEN;

EID: 0030760265     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050276     Document Type: Article

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