KIR2DL1 allelic diversity: Four new alleles characterized in a bone marrow transplant population and three families

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 250-254

  Hou, L H ^a   Steiner, N K ^a   Chen, M ^a   Belle, I ^a   Ng, J ^a   Hurley, C K ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

KIR2DL1; Natural killer cell; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DNA DETERMINATION; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KILLER CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVING DONORS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 34247867948     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: 13990039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2006.00793.x     Document Type: Article

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