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1988 • 20,341 citations

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1992 • 2,367 citations

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1997 • 1,226 citations

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2002 • 1,170 citations

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1997 • 1,052 citations

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2000 • 812 citations

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1997 • 769 citations

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2000 • 690 citations

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1995 • 507 citations

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1993 • 455 citations

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1993 • 448 citations

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2001 • 339 citations

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1996 • 337 citations

NK3-specific natural killer cells are selectively inhibited by Bw4-positive HLA alleles with isoleucine 80.

1994 • 337 citations

Cutting Edge: Susceptibility to Psoriatic Arthritis: Influence of Activating Killer Ig-Like Receptor Genes in the Absence of Specific HLA-C Alleles

2002 • 333 citations

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2000 • 327 citations

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1993 • 241 citations

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2003 • 225 citations

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2001 • 199 citations

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2001 • 178 citations

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1996 • 175 citations

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1992 • 157 citations

Hla Class I Antigens in Human Tumors

1995 • 133 citations

Development of a PCR‐SSOP approach capable of defining the natural killer cell inhibitory receptor (KIR) gene sequence repertoires

2000 • 119 citations

Natural killer cell lines kill autologous β₂-microglobulin-deficient melanoma cells: Implications for cancer immunotherapy

1997 • 109 citations

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2001 • 100 citations

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1994 • 83 citations

HLA and cancer: from research to clinical impact

1998 • 77 citations

Early-appearing tumour-infiltrating natural killer cells play a crucial role in the generation of anti-tumour T lymphocytes.

1995 • 76 citations

The susceptibility to natural killer cell-mediated lysis of HLA class I-positive melanomas reflects the expression of insufficient amounts of different HLA class I alleles

1998 • 67 citations

Binding of a soluble p70 killer cell inhibitory receptor to HLA‐B*5101: Requirement for all three p70 immunoglobulin domains

1997 • 62 citations

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2003 • 44 citations

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2003 • 42 citations

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1996 • 40 citations

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1996 • 36 citations

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1997 • 24 citations

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1998 • 18 citations

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1998 • 15 citations

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