Genomics and diversity of the common marmoset monkey NK complex

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 178, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 7151-7161

  Averdam, Anne ^a   Kuhl, Heiner ^b   Sontag, Mario ^b   Becker, Tamara ^a   Hughes, Austin L ^c   Reinhardt, Richard ^b   Walter, Lutz ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD94 ANTIGEN; CONTIG; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2A; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2D;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CHIMERA; CLINICAL RESEARCH; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HAPLOTYPE; LY49L GENE; MARMOSET; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NKG2 GENE; NKG2CE GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 34249815816     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.11.7151     Document Type: Article

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