Acknowledgements for manual annotation of the gorilla genome

The MHC region and KIR genes was annotated by the Havana group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Relevant Publications

• Jauch A, Wienberg J, Stanyon R, Arnold N, Tofanelli S, Ishida T, Cremer T.
  Reconstruction of genomic rearrangements in great apes and gibbons by chromosome painting.
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1992 Sep 15;89(18):8611-5. [Pubmed]
• Venditti CP, Lawlor DA, Sharma P, Chorney MJ.
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  Hum Immunol. 1996 Sep 1;49(2):71-84. [Pubmed]
• Sambrook JG, Bashirova A, Andersen H, Piatak M, Vernikos GS, Coggill P, Lifson JD, Carrington M, Beck S.
  Identification of the ancestral killer immunoglobulin-like receptor gene in primates.
  BMC Genomics. 2006 Aug 15;7:209. [Pubmed]
• Wilming LG, Hart EA, Coggill PC, Horton R, Gilbert JG, Clee C, Jones M, Lloyd C, Palmer S, Sims S, Whitehead S, Wiley D, Beck S, Harrow JL.
  Sequencing and comparative analysis of the gorilla MHC genomic sequence.
  Database (Oxford). 2013 Apr 15;2013:bat011. [Pubmed] [PMC] [doi:10.1093/database/bat011]