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SUBMITTER: Naruse TK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6374140 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Naruse Taeko K TK Akari Hirofumi H Matano Tetsuro T Kimura Akinori A
Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and biological sciences 20180101 10
Non-human primates such as rhesus macaque and cynomolgus macaque are important animals for medical research. These species are classified as Old-World monkeys (Cercopithecidae), in which the immune-related genome structure is characterized by gene duplications. In the present study, we investigated polymorphisms in two genes for ULBP5 encoding ligands for NKG2D. We found 18 and 11 ULBP5.1 alleles and 11 and 13 ULBP5.2 alleles in rhesus macaques and cynomolgus macaques, respectively. In addition, ...[more]