Maternal activating KIRs protect against human reproductive failure mediated by fetal HLA-C2.

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Published in J Clin Invest on October 25, 2010

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Susan E Hiby1, Richard Apps, Andrew M Sharkey, Lydia E Farrell, Lucy Gardner, Arend Mulder, Frans H Claas, James J Walker, Christopher W Redman, Christopher C Redman, Linda Morgan, Clare Tower, Lesley Regan, Gudrun E Moore, Mary Carrington, Ashley Moffett

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1: Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

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