Figure 8

Frequency and relative expression of KIR genes in the rhesus macaque cohort. A) Y-axis indicates the percentage of animals within the cohort (n = 69) that express the indicated KIR gene. Genes not listed were not present in any animal within our cohort. Mamu-KIR2DL04 was excluded since it is not amplified by our pyrosequencing amplicon. B) Graph illustrates the percent of total pyrosequencing reads per animal (n = 61) for each KIR gene. Averages and SEM are represented by error bars. Each animal included had at least 100 sequencing reads. Genotyping results representing less than 1% of total reads in an animal were excluded to mitigate the influence of PCR artifacts. Ambiguous reads matching more than one KIR gene and splice variants were also excluded.