Mechanisms of copy number variation and hybrid gene formation in the KIR immune gene complex.

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Published in Hum Mol Genet on December 03, 2009

Authors

James A Traherne1, Maureen Martin, Rosemary Ward, Maki Ohashi, Fawnda Pellett, Dafna Gladman, Derek Middleton, Mary Carrington, John Trowsdale

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Immunology, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge Cambridge CB2 1QP, UK. jat51@cam.ac.uk

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