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1998 • 1,666 citations

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1997 • 1,052 citations

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1995 • 793 citations

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1995 • 735 citations

HLA-C is the inhibitory ligand that determines dominant resistance to lysis by NK1- and NK2-specific natural killer cells.

1993 • 455 citations

Existence of both inhibitory (p58) and activatory (p50) receptors for HLA-C molecules in human natural killer cells.

1995 • 446 citations

The natural killer cell receptor specific for HLA-A allotypes: a novel member of the p58/p70 family of inhibitory receptors that is characterized by three immunoglobulin-like domains and is expressed as a 140-kD disulphide-linked dimer.

1996 • 365 citations

A human killer inhibitory receptor specific for HLA-A1,2.

1996 • 347 citations

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1994 • 343 citations

Evolution of the master Alu gene(s)

1991 • 299 citations

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1997 • 249 citations

Identification of a new, abundant superfamily of mammalian LTR-transposons

1993 • 223 citations

Phosphotyrosines in the killer cell inhibitory receptor motif of NKB1 are required for negative signaling and for association with protein tyrosine phosphatase 1C.

1996 • 213 citations

Tyrosine phosphorylation of a human killer inhibitory receptor recruits protein tyrosine phosphatase 1C.

1996 • 210 citations

Molecular dynamics of MHC genesis unraveled by sequence analysis of the 1,796,938-bp HLA class I region

1999 • 179 citations

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1999 • 160 citations

Multigene families and the evolution of complexity

1991 • 151 citations

Killer cell receptors: keeping pace with MHC class I evolution

1997 • 110 citations

Nucleotide Sequence Analysis of the HLA Class I Region Spanning the 237-kb Segment around the HLA-B and -C Genes

1997 • 108 citations

Genomic organization of a human killer cell inhibitory receptor gene

1997 • 98 citations

Nucleotide and amino acid sequence alignment for human killer cell inhibitory receptors (KIR), 1998

1998 • 82 citations

Coevolution of PERB11 (MIC) and HLA Class I Genes with HERV-16 and Retroelements by Extended Genomic Duplication

1999 • 68 citations

Genomic organization and allelic polymorphism of the human killer cell inhibitory receptor gene KIR 103

1997 • 65 citations

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1999 • 36 citations

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2004 • 27 citations

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1998 • 27 citations

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2000 • 11 citations