Assessment of copy-number variation in the NKG2C receptor gene in a single-tube and characterization of a reference cell panel, using standard polymerase chain reaction

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 184-187

  Moraru, M ^a   Canizares M ^a   Muntasell, A ^b   de Pablo, R ^a   Lopez Botet M ^b,c   Vilches, C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Copy number variation; Gene deletion; Genotyping; Human; NK cell receptors; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; HLA E ANTIGEN; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2A; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2D;

ACCURACY; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHROMOSOME 19; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EXON; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NKG2C RECEPTOR GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA PRIMERS; GENE DOSAGE; HERPESVIRUS 4, HUMAN; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; NK CELL LECTIN-LIKE RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY C; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 4;

EID: 84864344467     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: 13990039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.2012.01911.x     Document Type: Article

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