African Americans exhibit a predominant allele in the midst of extensive KIR2DL1 allelic diversity

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-34

  Hou, L ^a   Chen, M ^a   Jiang, B ^a   Ng, J ^a   Hurley, C K ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Killer immunoglobulin like receptor; Natural killer cell; Population diversity

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR 2DL1;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; STOP CODON;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALLELES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, KIR2DL1;

EID: 77953297273     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: 13990039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2010.01460.x     Document Type: Article

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