High KIR diversity in Amerindians is maintained using few gene-content haplotypes

Immunogenetics

Volumn 58, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 474-480

  Gendzekhadze, Ketevan ^a,b,c   Norman, Paul J ^a   Abi Rached, Laurent ^a   Layrisse, Zulay ^b   Parham, Peter ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amerindians; Balancing selection; KIR haplotypes; KIR locus genotypes

Indexed keywords

KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; KIR GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENEZUELA;

GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; VARIATION (GENETICS); VENEZUELA;

EID: 33744830612     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-006-0108-3     Document Type: Article

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