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Multiple sclerosis risk markers in HLA-DRA, HLA-C, and IFNG genes are associated with sex-specific childhood leukemia risk.
Autoimmunity - 1 Dec 2010
Morrison Brittany A, Ucisik-Akkaya Esma, Flores Hilario, Alaez Carmen, Gorodezky Clara, Dorak M Tevfik
Abstract excerpt
Previous epidemiologic studies showed four times increased risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children of women with multiple sclerosis (MS). MS shows a risk association with Human leukocyte antigens (HLA)-DRA single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs3135388, which is a proxy marker for DRB1*1501. We examined the relevance of rs3135388 in childhood ALL risk along with two other HLA-DRA SNPs in two...
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