Arrangement of the ILT gene cluster: A common null allele of the ILT6 gene results from a 6.7-kbp deletion

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 3655-3662

  Torkar, Michaela ^a   Haude, Anja ^b   Milne, Sarah ^b   Beck, Stephan ^b   Trowsdale, John ^a   Wilson, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immunoglobulin like transcript; Leukocyte receptor cluster Killer cell immunoglobulin like receptor

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 19Q; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOP CODON;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC;

EID: 0034535663     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200012)30:12<3655::AID-IMMU3655>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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