qKAT: Quantitative Semi-automated Typing of Killer-cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptor GenesJyothi Jayaraman 1,2,3,4, Vitalina Kirgizova 1, Da Di 1,5, Christopher Johnson 1,6, Wei Jiang 1,7, James A. Traherne 1
1Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, 2Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge School of Medicine, NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, 4Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge, 5Department of Genetics & Evolution, University of Geneva, 6Royal Papworth Hospital, 7Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
Quantitative killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) semi-automated typing (qKAT) is a simple, high-throughput, and cost-effective method to copy number type KIR genes for their application in population and disease association studies.