KIR3DL2

killer cell immunoglobulin like receptor, three Ig domains and long cytoplasmic tail 2

Summary

Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) are transmembrane glycoproteins expressed by natural killer cells and subsets of T cells. The KIR genes are polymorphic and highly homologous and they are found in a cluster on chromosome 19q13.4 within the 1 Mb leukocyte receptor complex (LRC). The gene content of the KIR gene cluster varies among haplotypes, although several "framework" genes are found in all haplotypes (KIR3DL3, KIR3DP1, KIR3DL4, KIR3DL2). The KIR proteins are classified by the number of extracellular immunoglobulin domains (2D or 3D) and by whether they have a long (L) or short (S) cytoplasmic domain. KIR proteins with the long cytoplasmic domain transduce inhibitory signals upon ligand binding via an immune tyrosine-based inhibitory motif (ITIM), while KIR proteins with the short cytoplasmic domain lack the ITIM motif and instead associate with the TYRO protein tyrosine kinase binding protein to transduce activating signals. The ligands for several KIR proteins are subsets of HLA class I molecules; thus, KIR proteins are thought to play an important role in regulation of the immune response. This gene is one of the "framework" loci that is present on all haplotypes. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding multiple isoforms have been observed for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jun 2011]

Known Variants54 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs122493410919:55,361,953T/C—uncertain significance
rs11352287619:55,361,956C/T—uncertain significance
rs206429267719:55,363,477C/T—uncertain significance
rs20052154219:55,363,482C/G—uncertain significance
rs54701537919:55,363,491A/G—likely benign
rs77674987819:55,363,515G/A—uncertain significance
rs143720578019:55,363,521C/T—uncertain significance
rs54992214219:55,363,537G/A—uncertain significance
rs133321420119:55,363,539C/T—uncertain significance
rs76308944519:55,363,540G/A—uncertain significance
rs117981146119:55,363,578A/G—uncertain significance
rs75235710319:55,363,584G/A—uncertain significance
rs251467706919:55,363,620T/C—uncertain significance
rs139696406519:55,363,671G/A—uncertain significance
rs14261256719:55,363,678G/A—likely benign
rs14650065519:55,363,685C/G—uncertain significance
rs37342550819:55,363,690T/C—likely benign
rs122132494019:55,365,271T/A—uncertain significance
rs145907810819:55,365,277G/A—uncertain significance
rs251471709919:55,365,283C/T—uncertain significance
rs140305592919:55,365,306T/C—likely benign
rs76592464819:55,365,348G/A—uncertain significance
rs77887357719:55,365,366G/A—uncertain significance
rs117384597319:55,367,093T/A—likely benign
rs103037403019:55,367,116C/A—uncertain significance
rs100771430819:55,367,136G/A—uncertain significance
rs74851255719:55,367,157T/C—likely benign
rs37411042519:55,367,174C/G—likely benign
rs77621726219:55,367,191A/G—uncertain significance
rs93739015619:55,367,217C/T—uncertain significance
rs99152856719:55,367,218G/A—uncertain significance
rs76925524819:55,367,326T/G—uncertain significance
rs77422038319:55,367,336C/G—uncertain significance
rs19988970319:55,367,451T/C——
rs14117826519:55,371,448C/Tintron variant—
rs7763775819:55,374,087T/Cintron variant—
rs1298015119:55,374,472C/Aintron variant—
rs77966693319:55,377,279T/C—likely benign
rs135995157919:55,377,303C/T—likely benign
rs14101309019:55,377,344G/A—uncertain significance
rs251494039219:55,377,359A/C—uncertain significance
rs19185681119:55,377,429C/Tdownstream gene variant—
rs13877075919:55,377,838G/A—uncertain significance
rs14007001619:55,377,851G/C—uncertain significance
rs77160382419:55,377,978A/G—uncertain significance
rs374590219:55,378,008C/Tmissense variant—
rs18990622519:55,378,031G/A—uncertain significance
rs77651251619:55,378,056G/A—uncertain significance
rs206554420419:55,378,064C/G—uncertain significance
rs14105212719:55,378,104C/A—uncertain significance
rs18331005819:55,378,109C/T—uncertain significance
rs75632806119:55,378,140T/C—uncertain significance
rs78059703519:55,378,143C/T—likely benign
rs139626035319:55,378,157C/G—uncertain significance

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.