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Differences in meiotic recombination rates in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia at an MHC class II hotspot close to disease associated haplotypes.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Thompson Pamela, Urayama Kevin, Zheng Jie, Yang Peng, Ford Matt, Buffler Patricia, Chokkalingam Anand, Lightfoot Tracy, Taylor Malcolm
Abstract excerpt
Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) is a malignant lymphoid disease of which B-cell precursor- (BCP) and T-cell- (T) ALL are subtypes. The role of alleles encoded by major histocompatibility loci (MHC) have been examined in a number of previous studies and results indicating weak, multi-allele associations between the HLA-DPB1 locus and BCP-ALL suggested a role for immunosusceptibility and possibly...
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