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/Cuncertain significance
rs11352287619:55,361,956C/Tuncertain significance
rs206429267719:55,363,477C/Tuncertain significance
rs20052154219:55,363,482C/Guncertain significance
rs54701537919:55,363,491A/Glikely benign
rs77674987819:55,363,515G/Auncertain significance
rs143720578019:55,363,521C/Tuncertain significance
rs54992214219:55,363,537G/Auncertain significance
rs133321420119:55,363,539C/Tuncertain significance
rs76308944519:55,363,540G/Auncertain significance
rs117981146119:55,363,578A/Guncertain significance
rs75235710319:55,363,584G/Auncertain significance
rs251467706919:55,363,620T/Cuncertain significance
rs139696406519:55,363,671G/Auncertain significance
rs14261256719:55,363,678G/Alikely benign
rs14650065519:55,363,685C/Guncertain significance
rs37342550819:55,363,690T/Clikely benign
rs122132494019:55,365,271T/Auncertain significance
rs145907810819:55,365,277G/Auncertain significance
rs251471709919:55,365,283C/Tuncertain significance
rs140305592919:55,365,306T/Clikely benign
rs76592464819:55,365,348G/Auncertain significance
rs77887357719:55,365,366G/Auncertain significance
rs117384597319:55,367,093T/Alikely benign
rs103037403019:55,367,116C/Auncertain significance
rs100771430819:55,367,136G/Auncertain significance
rs74851255719:55,367,157T/Clikely benign
rs37411042519:55,367,174C/Glikely benign
rs77621726219:55,367,191A/Guncertain significance
rs93739015619:55,367,217C/Tuncertain significance
rs99152856719:55,367,218G/Auncertain significance
rs76925524819:55,367,326T/Guncertain significance
rs77422038319:55,367,336C/Guncertain 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/Clikely benign
rs135995157919:55,377,303C/Tlikely benign
rs14101309019:55,377,344G/Auncertain significance
rs251494039219:55,377,359A/Cuncertain significance
rs19185681119:55,377,429C/Tdownstream gene variant
rs13877075919:55,377,838G/Auncertain significance
rs14007001619:55,377,851G/Cuncertain significance
rs77160382419:55,377,978A/Guncertain significance
rs374590219:55,378,008C/Tmissense variant
rs18990622519:55,378,031G/Auncertain significance
rs77651251619:55,378,056G/Auncertain significance
rs206554420419:55,378,064C/Guncertain significance
rs14105212719:55,378,104C/Auncertain significance
rs18331005819:55,378,109C/Tuncertain significance
rs75632806119:55,378,140T/Cuncertain significance
rs78059703519:55,378,143C/Tlikely benign
rs139626035319:55,378,157C/Guncertain significance

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.