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Possible role of natural killer cells in negative selection of mutant lymphocytes that fail to express the human leukocyte antigen-A2 allele.
Mutation research - 9 May 2001
Kusunoki Y, Kyoizumi S, Kubo Y, Hayashi T, MacPhee D G
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Increased frequencies of cells carrying mutations at several loci have been found in the blood cells of atomic-bomb (A-bomb) survivors upon testing four or five decades after the bombing. Interestingly, though, we have been unable to demonstrate any radiation-associated increases in the frequencies of mutant blood cells in which human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A expression has been disrupted; this is true both of...
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