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Strong association of the HLA-DP6 supertype with childhood leukaemia is due to a single allele, DPB1*0601.
Leukemia - 1 May 2009
Taylor G M, Hussain A, Verhage V, Thompson P D, Fergusson W D, Watkins G, Lightfoot T, Harrison C J, Birch J M
Abstract excerpt
We previously reported that susceptibility to childhood B cell precursor ALL (BCP ALL) is associated with HLA-DPB1 alleles having glutamic acid (E) rather than lysine (K) in the P4 antigenic peptide-binding pocket. Clustering approximately 90% of DPB1 alleles into DPB69E (DP2, 6, 8) and DPB69K (DP1, 3, 4) supertypes revealed that DP2 and DP8 are associated with BCP ALL, but DP6 is also associated with non-BCP...
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