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HLA-E polymorphism in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Tissue antigens - 1 Nov 2004
Hirankarn N, Kimkong I, Mutirangura A
Abstract excerpt
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) has been known to be associated with HLA class I region. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between HLA-E and genetic susceptibility to nasopharyngeal carcinogenesis by comparing the frequencies of HLA-E alleles in 100 Thai NPC patients and 100 healthy controls. HLA-E typing was performed by means of polymerase chain reaction-sequence-specific oligonucleotide...
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