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Association of KIR2DS4 and its variant KIR1D with leukemia

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The study was supported by the Grant no. 2 PO5B 155 28 from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

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  1. Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Silesian Medical University, Katowice, Poland

    S Giebel, J Wojnar, M Krawczyk-Kulis, J Holowiecki & S Kyrcz-Krzemien

  2. Department of Clinical Immunology, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

    I Nowak & P Kusnierczyk

  3. Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Institute of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jan Dlugosz Pedagogical University, Czestochowa, Poland

    P Kusnierczyk

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Giebel, S., Nowak, I., Wojnar, J. et al. Association of KIR2DS4 and its variant KIR1D with leukemia. Leukemia 22, 2129–2130 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/leu.2008.108

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