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KIR typing by non-sequencing methods: polymerase-chain reaction with sequence-specific primers.

David Ordóñez1, Manuela Moraru, Natalia Gómez-Lozano

  • 1Inmunogenética-HLA, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Majadahonda, Spain.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|June 6, 2012
PubMed
Summary

Killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) gene variations impact human health and cancer therapy. This study details a precise protocol for KIR genotyping using PCR with sequence-specific primers (SSP) to analyze these critical genetic differences.

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