The human natural killer gene complex (NKC) is located on chromosome 12p13.1-p13.2

Immunogenetics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 159-162

  Suto, Yumiko ^a   Yabe, Toshio ^a   Maenaka, Katsumi ^a   Tokunaga, Katsushi ^a,b   Tadokoro, Kenji ^a   Juji, Takeo ^a  

^a JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 12P; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC;

EID: 0030991995     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050256     Document Type: Article

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