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Significance of ethnicity in the risk of acute graft-versus-host disease and leukemia relapse after unrelated donor hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation - 1 Aug 2013
Morishima Yasuo, Kawase Takakazu, Malkki Mari, Morishima Satoko, Spellman Stephen, Kashiwase Koichi, Kato Shunichi, Cesbron Anne, Tiercy Jean-Marie, Senitzer David, Velardi Andrea, Petersdorf Effie W
Abstract excerpt
The significance of patient and donor ethnicity on risk of acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) and disease relapse after unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is not known. A total of 4335 patient-donor pairs from the International Histocompatibility Working Group in HCT met the following 3 criteria: (1) HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1, and -DQB1 allele matched donor, (2) diagnosis of leukemia, and (3)...
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