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Association between HLA-A/-B antigens and -DRB1 alleles and nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Tunisia.
Oncology - 1 Jan 2001
Mokni-Baizig N, Ayed K, Ayed F B, Ayed S, Sassi F, Ladgham A, Bel Hadj O, El May A
Abstract excerpt
Using serologic and molecular methods, 45 nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients were typed for HLA class I and class II and were compared to 100 unrelated normal Tunisians. Our results showed that the antigen frequency of HLA-B13 and allelic frequencies of DRB1*03, DRB1*15 were significantly higher in the NPC patients than in the control group (15.5 vs. 4; 26.4 vs. 11.5, and 14.4 vs. 6.5%, respectively)...
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