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Molecular strategies to define HLA haplotype loss in microdissected tumor cells.
Human immunology - 1 Oct 2000
Ramal L M, Maleno I, Cabrera T, Collado A, Ferron A, Lopez-Nevot M A, Garrido F
Abstract excerpt
Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of chromosome 6p21 is an important mechanism that generates HLA haplotype loss in various human tumors. This mechanism produces non-reversible HLA-deficient tumor cells that can escape T cell immune responses in peptide-vaccinated cancer patients. However, the exact frequency of this mechanism is still unknown, because contaminating stroma in solid tumor tissues masks the tumor DNA...
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