Influence of activating and inhibitory killer immunoglobulin-like receptors on predisposition to recurrent miscarriages

Human Reproduction

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1758-1764

  Faridi, R M ^a   Das, V ^b   Tripthi, G ^a   Talwar, S ^a   Parveen, F ^a   Agrawal, S ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Activating and inhibitory killer immunoglobulin like receptors; Natural killer cells; Recurrent miscarriages; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; KIR GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT ABORTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLAST;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, KIR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 69149086648     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dep047     Document Type: Article

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