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The activating killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors as important determinants of acute graft-versus host disease in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for acute myelogenous leukemia.
Transplantation - 15 Nov 2007
Kim Hee-Je, Choi Young, Min Woo-Sung, Kim Tai-Gyu, Cho Byung-Sik, Kim Sung-Yong, Eom Ki-Sung, Lee Seok, Min Chang-Ki, Cho Seok-Goo, Kim Dong-Wook, Lee Jong-Wook, Kim Chun-Choo
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BACKGROUND: We investigated the influence of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) genes, based on the genotypes of inhibitory or activating KIR, in stem cell recipients with acute myelogenous leukemia and their human leukocyte antigen-matched sibling donors on acute graft-versus host disease (GVHD) after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. METHODS: We studied 53 consecutive donor-recipient pairs to...
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