The 5′ intergenic, promoter, pseudoexon 3 and complete coding sequences of the hybrid gene KIR2DS3*002

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 504-505

  Ordonez D ^a   Gomez Lozano N ^a   Vilches, C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Innate immunity; KIR; Natural killer cells; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR; SPACER DNA; KIR2DS3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ETHNICITY; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYBRID GENE; KIR2DS3 GENE; KIR2DS5 GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOGENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; EXONS; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOGENES; RECEPTORS, KIR;

EID: 54049148145     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: 13990039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2008.01126.x     Document Type: Article

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