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

Polymorphic Sites Away from the Bw4 Epitope That Affect Interaction of Bw4+ HLA-B with KIR3DL1

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Synergistic Polymorphism at Two Positions Distal to the Ligand-Binding Site Makes KIR2DL2 a Stronger Receptor for HLA-C Than KIR2DL3

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Immune mechanisms in malaria: new insights in vaccine development

(2013) Eleanor M Riley et al.   NATURE MEDICINE

Multiple Instances of Ancient Balancing Selection Shared Between Humans and Chimpanzees

(2013) E. M. Leffler et al.   SCIENCE

ape 3.0: New tools for distance-based phylogenetics and evolutionary analysis in R

(2012) Andrei-Alin Popescu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

HIV Control through a Single Nucleotide on the HLA-B Locus

(2012) H. N. Kloverpris et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

HLA-C–Dependent Prevention of Leukemia Relapse by Donor ActivatingKIR2DS1

(2012) Jeffrey M. Venstrom et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

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

Evolution, revolution and heresy in the genetics of infectious disease susceptibility

(2012) A. V. S. Hill   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

The great human expansion

(2012) B. M. Henn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Significant Association of KIR2DL3-HLA-C1 Combination with Cerebral Malaria and Implications for Co-evolution of KIR and HLA

(2012) Kouyuki Hirayasu et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The characteristics of allelic polymorphism in killer-immunoglobulin-like receptor framework genes in African Americans

(2011) LiHua Hou et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

The MHC, disease and selection

(2011) John Trowsdale   IMMUNOLOGY LETTERS

HLA Class I Allelic Sequence and Conformation Regulate Leukocyte Ig-Like Receptor Binding

(2011) D. C. Jones et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Variable NK Cell Receptors Exemplified by Human KIR3DL1/S1

(2011) P. Parham et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Common HIV-1 Peptide Variants Mediate Differential Binding of KIR3DL1 to HLA-Bw4 Molecules

(2011) L. Fadda et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

HIV-1 adaptation to NK-cell-mediated immune pressure

(2011) Galit Alter et al.   NATURE

Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor 3DL1-mediated recognition of human leukocyte antigen B

(2011) Julian P. Vivian et al.   NATURE

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

Congenital Cytomegalovirus Mortality in the United States, 1990–2006

(2011) Benjamin N. Bristow et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

KIR2DL2 Enhances Protective and Detrimental HLA Class I-Mediated Immunity in Chronic Viral Infection

(2011) Nafisa-Katrin Seich al Basatena et al.   PLoS Pathogens

pegas: an R package for population genetics with an integrated-modular approach

(2010) E. Paradis   BIOINFORMATICS

Little genetic differentiation as assessed by uniparental markers in the presence of substantial language variation in peoples of the Cross River region of Nigeria

(2010) Krishna R Veeramah et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Linkage disequilibrium organization of the human KIR superlocus: implications for KIR data analyses

(2010) Pierre-Antoine Gourraud et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

Y-Chromosomal Variation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights Into the History of Niger-Congo Groups

(2010) C. de Filippo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

Different Patterns of Evolution in the Centromeric and Telomeric Regions of Group A and B Haplotypes of the Human Killer Cell Ig-Like Receptor Locus

(2010) Chul-Woo Pyo et al.   PLoS One

Peptide antagonism as a mechanism for NK cell activation

(2010) L. Fadda et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Significant functional heterogeneity among KIR2DL1 alleles and a pivotal role of arginine245

(2009) R. Bari et al.   BLOOD

Meiotic recombination generates rich diversity in NK cell receptor genes, alleles, and haplotypes

(2009) P. J. Norman et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

KIR2DS4 is a product of gene conversion with KIR3DL2 that introduced specificity for HLA-A*11 while diminishing avidity for HLA-C

(2009) Thorsten Graef et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

Dimorphic Motifs in D0 and D1+D2 Domains of Killer Cell Ig-Like Receptor 3DL1 Combine to Form Receptors with High, Moderate, and No Avidity for the Complex of a Peptide Derived from HIV and HLA-A*2402

(2009) D. Sharma et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

The molecular basis of TCR germline bias for MHC is surprisingly simple

(2009) K Christopher Garcia et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

From evolutionary genetics to human immunology: how selection shapes host defence genes

(2009) Luis B. Barreiro et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

IPD—the Immuno Polymorphism Database

(2009) James Robinson et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

HLA class I allele and haplotype diversity in Ugandans supports the presence of a major east African genetic cluster

(2009) G. H. Kijak et al.   TISSUE ANTIGENS

Evolutionarily Conserved Amino Acids That Control TCR-MHC Interaction

(2008) Philippa Marrack et al.   Annual Review of Immunology

Seroprevalence of HHV-8, CMV, and EBV among the general population in Ghana, West Africa

(2008) Andrew A Adjei et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

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

Balancing selection and heterogeneity across the classical human leukocyte antigen loci: A meta-analytic review of 497 population studies

(2008) Owen D. Solberg et al.   HUMAN IMMUNOLOGY

Structure of UL18, a peptide-binding viral MHC mimic, bound to a host inhibitory receptor

(2008) Z. Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA