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HLA alleles in pre-menopausal breast cancer patients from western India.
The Indian journal of medical research - 1 Sept 2006
Gopalkrishnan L, Patil S, Chhaya S, Badwe R, Joshi N
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BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: Cytotoxic function of Natural Killer (NK) cells is regulated by the products of HLA class I genes. Associations between HLA alleles and risk for cancers have been suggested earlier. Several reports further emphasize the need to examine influence of HLA genotypes on risk for malignant disorders. Therefore, we undertook this study to assess the possibility of association of HLA-class I...
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