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Cord blood banks collect units with different HLA alleles and haplotypes to volunteer donor banks: a comparative report from Swiss Blood stem cells.
Bone marrow transplantation - 1 May 2009
Meyer-Monard S, Passweg J, Troeger C, Eberhard H-P, Roosnek E, de Faveri G Nicoloso, Chalandon Y, Rovo A, Kindler V, Irion O, Holzgreve W, Gratwohl A, Müller C, Tichelli A, Tiercy J-M
Abstract excerpt
Allogeneic haematopoietic SCT is a standard therapy for many patients with haematological diseases. A major aim of public umbilical cord blood (UCB) banking is to establish an inventory with a large HLA diversity. Few studies have compared HLA diversity between UCB banks and volunteer unrelated donor (VUD) registries and examined whether UCB banks indeed collect more units with rare alleles and haplotypes. This...
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