The centromeric part of the human NK gene complex: Linkage of LOX-1 and LY49L with the CD94/NKG2 region

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 280-287

  Bull, C ^a   Sobanov, Y ^b   Rohrdanz B ^a   O'Brien, J ^a   Lehrach, H ^a   Hofer, E ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chromosome 12; LOX, CD94, NKG2 and LY 49 genes; Natural killer cells; NK gene complex

Indexed keywords

RODENTIA;

CD94 ANTIGEN; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; KLRD1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; LECTIN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; LY 49 ANTIGEN; LY ANTIGEN; LY-49 ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NATURAL KILLER CELL ACTIVATING RECEPTORS; OLR1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR 1;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD94; ANTIGENS, LY; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTROMERE; DNA; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LECTINS, C-TYPE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; RECEPTORS, LDL; RECEPTORS, OXIDIZED LDL; SCAVENGER RECEPTORS, CLASS E; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0034573868     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gene.6363678     Document Type: Article

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