Nucleotide and amino acid sequence alignment for human killer cell inhibitory receptors (KIR), 1998

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 51, Issue 4 I, 1998, Pages 398-413

  Steffens, U ^a   Vyas, Y ^a   Dupont, B ^a   Selvakumar, A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Immunoglobulin superfamily; Killer cell inhibitory receptors; KIR; Polymorphism; Review; Sequence alignment; Website

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 19P; DNA POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0031958244     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1998.tb02981.x     Document Type: Article

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