Loss and Gain of Natural Killer Cell Receptor Function in an African Hunter-Gatherer Population
Published 2015 View Full Article
- Home
- Publications
- Publication Search
- Publication Details
Title
Loss and Gain of Natural Killer Cell Receptor Function in an African Hunter-Gatherer Population
Authors
Keywords
Haplotypes, Population genetics, Zulu people, NK cells, Africa, Immune receptor signaling, Point mutation, Species diversity
Journal
PLoS Genetics
Volume 11, Issue 8, Pages e1005439
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Online
2015-08-21
DOI
10.1371/journal.pgen.1005439
References
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Related references
Note: Only part of the references are listed.- AKIR Bcentromeric region present in Africans but not Europeans protects pregnant women from pre-eclampsia
- (2015) Annettee Nakimuli et al. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- A Genomic Portrait of Haplotype Diversity and Signatures of Selection in Indigenous Southern African Populations
- (2015) Emile R. Chimusa et al. PLoS Genetics
- Exome capture from saliva produces high quality genomic and metagenomic data
- (2014) Jeffrey M Kidd et al. BMC GENOMICS
- KIR diversity in Māori and Polynesians: populations in which HLA-B is not a significant KIR ligand
- (2014) Neda Nemat-Gorgani et al. IMMUNOGENETICS
- Synergistic Polymorphism at Two Positions Distal to the Ligand-Binding Site Makes KIR2DL2 a Stronger Receptor for HLA-C Than KIR2DL3
- (2014) A. K. Moesta et al. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
- Novel KIR3DL1 Alleles and Their Expression Levels on NK Cells: Convergent Evolution of KIR3DL1 Phenotype Variation?
- (2014) R. Thomas et al. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
- The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa
- (2014) Deepti Gurdasani et al. NATURE
- Khoisan hunter-gatherers have been the largest population throughout most of modern-human demographic history
- (2014) Hie Lim Kim et al. Nature Communications
- Pregnancy, parturition and preeclampsia in women of African ancestry
- (2013) Annettee Nakimuli et al. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY
- Co-evolution of Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) Class I Ligands with Killer-Cell Immunoglobulin-Like Receptors (KIR) in a Genetically Diverse Population of Sub-Saharan Africans
- (2013) Paul J. Norman et al. PLoS Genetics
- Complex Patterns of Genomic Admixture within Southern Africa
- (2013) Desiree C. Petersen et al. PLoS Genetics
- Evolutionary History and Adaptation from High-Coverage Whole-Genome Sequences of Diverse African Hunter-Gatherers
- (2012) Joseph Lachance et al. CELL
- Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) gene content variation in the HGDP-CEPH populations
- (2012) Jill A. Hollenbach et al. IMMUNOGENETICS
- Mutation at Positively Selected Positions in the Binding Site for HLA-C Shows That KIR2DL1 Is a More Refined but Less Adaptable NK Cell Receptor Than KIR2DL3
- (2012) H. G. Hilton et al. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
- IPD—the Immuno Polymorphism Database
- (2012) James Robinson et al. NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
- Out-of-Africa, the peopling of continents and islands: tracing uniparental gene trees across the map
- (2012) S. Oppenheimer PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
- Human-specific evolution of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor recognition of major histocompatibility complex class I molecules
- (2012) P. Parham et al. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
- Allele-Level Haplotype Frequencies and Pairwise Linkage Disequilibrium for 14 KIR Loci in 506 European-American Individuals
- (2012) Cynthia Vierra-Green et al. PLoS One
- Genomic Variation in Seven Khoe-San Groups Reveals Adaptation and Complex African History
- (2012) C. M. Schlebusch et al. SCIENCE
- Bayesian inference of ancient human demography from individual genome sequences
- (2011) Ilan Gronau et al. NATURE GENETICS
- Hunter-gatherer genomic diversity suggests a southern African origin for modern humans
- (2011) B. M. Henn et al. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- The Shaping of Modern Human Immune Systems by Multiregional Admixture with Archaic Humans
- (2011) L. Abi-Rached et al. SCIENCE
- Complete Khoisan and Bantu genomes from southern Africa
- (2010) Stephan C. Schuster et al. NATURE
- Allele frequency net: a database and online repository for immune gene frequencies in worldwide populations
- (2010) F. F. Gonzalez-Galarza et al. NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
- Human-Specific Evolution and Adaptation Led to Major Qualitative Differences in the Variable Receptors of Human and Chimpanzee Natural Killer Cells
- (2010) Laurent Abi-Rached et al. PLoS Genetics
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
- (2009) H. Li et al. BIOINFORMATICS
- Significant functional heterogeneity among KIR2DL1 alleles and a pivotal role of arginine245
- (2009) R. Bari et al. BLOOD
- Hidden talents of natural killers: NK cells in innate and adaptive immunity
- (2009) Megan A. Cooper et al. EMBO REPORTS
- Genome-wide scans for footprints of natural selection
- (2009) T. K. Oleksyk et al. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
- Genome-wide patterns of population structure and admixture in West Africans and African Americans
- (2009) K. Bryc et al. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Co-evolution of KIR2DL3 with HLA-C in a human population retaining minimal essential diversity of KIR and HLA class I ligands
- (2009) K. Gendzekhadze et al. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans
- (2009) S. A. Tishkoff et al. SCIENCE
- Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
- (2009) Ben Langmead et al. GENOME BIOLOGY
- Dramatically reduced surface expression of NK cell receptor KIR2DS3 is attributed to multiple residues throughout the molecule
- (2008) C J VandenBussche et al. GENES AND IMMUNITY
Create your own webinar
Interested in hosting your own webinar? Check the schedule and propose your idea to the Peeref Content Team.
Create NowBecome a Peeref-certified reviewer
The Peeref Institute provides free reviewer training that teaches the core competencies of the academic peer review process.
Get Started