KIR Variation in Iranians Combines High Haplotype and Allotype Diversity With an Abundance of Functional Inhibitory Receptors.
Claudia Alicata,
Elham Ashouri,
Neda Nemat-Gorgani,
Lisbeth A Guethlein,
Wesley M Marin,
Sudan Tao,
Lorenzo Moretta,
Jill A Hollenbach,
John Trowsdale,
James A Traherne,
Abbas Ghaderi,
Peter Parham,
Paul J Norman
May 29, 2020
Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphocytes that eliminate infected and transformed cells. They discriminate healthy from diseased tissue through killer cell Ig-like receptor (KIR) recognition of HLA class I ligands....