Royal Papworth Hospital 1 article published in JoVE Genetics qKAT: Quantitative Semi-automated Typing of Killer-cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptor Genes Jyothi Jayaraman1,2,3,4, Vitalina Kirgizova1, Da Di1,5, Christopher Johnson1,6, Wei Jiang1,7, James A. Traherne1 1Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, 2Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Cambridge School of Medicine, NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, 4Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge, 5Department of Genetics & Evolution, University of Geneva, 6Royal Papworth Hospital, 7Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge Quantitative killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) semi-automated typing (qKAT) is a simple, high-throughput, and cost-effective method to copy number type KIR genes for their application in population and disease association studies.