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Of snowflakes and natural killer cell subsets

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Mass cytometric analysis reveals a remarkable and unanticipated degree of phenotypic heterogeneity among human peripheral blood natural killer cells.

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Figure 1: Subsets of subsets of subsets.

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L.L.L. is an American Cancer Society Professor and funded by US National Institutes of Health grants AI066897 and AI068129.

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Lanier, L. Of snowflakes and natural killer cell subsets. Nat Biotechnol 32, 140–142 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2810

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