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Polymorphisms in the base excision repair pathway and graft-versus-host disease.
Leukemia - 1 Aug 2010
Arora M, Lindgren B, Basu S, Nagaraj S, Gross M, Weisdorf D, Thyagarajan B
Abstract excerpt
Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a frequent complication after hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT). Tissue damage as a result of chemoradiation injury is the initiating event in the pathogenesis of acute GVHD. Variations in DNA repair can influence the amount of tissue damage in response to alkylating agents and ionizing radiation used as conditioning during HCT. As DNA damage caused by these agents is...
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