KIR and HLA genotyping of Japanese descendants from Curitiba, a city of predominantly European ancestry from Southern Brazil

We hereby report the KIR gene frequencies and the frequencies of HLA ligands of KIR for Brazilians of Japanese ancestry. A total of 51 individuals were genotyped for presence/absence of KIR (killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors) genes and presence of HLA (human leukocyte antigens) ligands. KIR was genotyped using two pairs of sequence-specific primers (PCR-SSP) and HLA ligands were typed by LABType (R) SSO reagent kits (One Lambda, USA). These data are fully available in Allele Frequencies Net Database, under the population name Brazil Curitiba Japanese KIR. (C) 2016 American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved;