Allele-Level Haplotype Frequencies and Pairwise Linkage Disequilibrium for 14 KIR Loci in 506 European-American Individuals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Vierra Green, Cynthia ^a   Roe, David ^b   Hou, Lihua ^c   Hurley, Carolyn Katovich ^c   Rajalingam, Raja ^d   Reed, Elaine ^d   Lebedeva, Tatiana ^e   Yu, Neng ^e   Stewart, Mary ^f   Noreen, Harriet ^f   Hollenbach, Jill A ^b,g   Guethlein, Lisbeth A ^h   Wang, Tao ⁱ   Spellman, Stephen ^a   Maiers, Martin ^b  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL BLOOD AND MARROW TRANSPLANT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL BLOOD AND MARROW TRANSPLANT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR 2DL1; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR 2DL2; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR 2DL3; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR 2DL4; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR 2DL5; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR 3DL1; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR 3DL2; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR 3DS1;

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; KIR GENE; KIR2DL1 GENE; KIR2DL2 GENE; KIR2DL3 GENE; KIR2DL4 GENE; KIR2DL5 GENE; KIR2DS1 GENE; KIR2DS2 GENE; KIR2DS3 GENE; KIR2DS3S5 GENE; KIR2DS4 GENE; KIR2DS5 GENE; KIR3DL1 GENE; KIR3DL2 GENE; KIR3DL3 GENE; KIR3DS1 GENE; TELOMERE;

ALLELES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LOCI; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; RECEPTORS, KIR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868342527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047491     Document Type: Article

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