KIR genotypic diversity can track ancestries in heterogeneous populations: A potential confounder for disease association studies

Immunogenetics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 97-109

  Singh, Komal Manpreet ^a   Phung, Yume T ^a   Kohla, Mohamed S ^a,e   Lan, Billy Y A ^c   Chan, Sharon ^c   Suen, Diana L ^a   Murad, Sahar ^a   Rheault, Shana ^a   Davidson, Peter ^d   Evans, Jennifer ^d   Singh, Manpreet ^f   Dohil, Sofie ^a   Osorio, Robert W ^a   Wakil, Adil E ^a   Page, Kimberly ^d   Feng, Sandy ^b,c   Cooper, Stewart L ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UCSF Liver Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e National Liver Institute   (Egypt)

^f National Liver Institute ^*

Author keywords

Ethnicity; KIR genotype frequency; Northern California population; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; KIR GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CALIFORNIA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, KIR;

EID: 84857362229     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: 14321211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-011-0569-x     Document Type: Article

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