Editorial: HLA and KIR Diversity and Polymorphisms: Emerging Concepts

Front Immunol. 2021 May 17:12:701398. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.701398. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Martin Maiers¹, Ramit Mehr², Malini Raghavan³, Jim Kaufman^{4

5}, Yoram Louzoun²

Affiliations

¹ National Marrow Donor Program, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
² Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
³ Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
⁴ Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
⁵ Institute for Immunology and Infection Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Keywords: HLA; KIR; diversity; immunogenetics; polymorphism SIP- Society for Immune Polymorphism.

Publication types

Editorial
Introductory Journal Article

MeSH terms

Animals
HLA Antigens / genetics*
HLA Antigens / immunology
Humans
Polymorphism, Genetic / genetics*
Polymorphism, Genetic / immunology
Receptors, KIR / genetics*
Receptors, KIR / immunology

Substances

HLA Antigens
Receptors, KIR

Grants and funding

R01 AI044115/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States