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Association of HLA class II allele and haplotype frequencies with chronic myelogenous leukemia and age-at-onset of the disease.
Pathology oncology research : POR - 1 Jan 2007
Amirzargar Ali-Akbar, Khosravi Farideh, Dianat Saied S, Alimoghadam Kamran, Ghavamzadeh Fereidoun, Ansaripour Bita, Moradi Batool, Nikbin Behrooz
Abstract excerpt
Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is characterized by the presence of Philadelphia chromosome resulting from bcr/abl translocation. To clarify the association between HLA class II allele and haplotype frequencies in CML, 50 patients referred to Hematology Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) center, Shariaty Hospital, Tehran, Iran, were randomly selected and compared with a group of 80 unrelated...
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