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CD31 mismatching affects marrow transplantation outcome.
Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation - 1 Jan 2001
Grumet F C, Hiraki D D, Brown BWM, Zehnder J L, Zacks E S, Draksharapu A, Parnes J, Negrin R S
Abstract excerpt
Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) complicating allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is often attributed to mismatched minor histocompatibility antigens (mHags), which are poorly defined in humans. CD31 is a candidate human mHag relevant to acute GVHD, but reports disagree about its level of significance, the role of HLA restriction, and the relative importance of different polymorphic codons within the...
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