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Vascular endothelial growth factor A polymorphism and risk of Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus viremia in kidney allograft recipients.
Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society - 1 Oct 2014
Alkharsah K R, Alzahrani A J, Obeid O E, El-Harith E-H A, Guella A, Mohamed E A, Haykal A H, Stuhrmann M, Al-Ali A K
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BACKGROUND: Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV) causes Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), primary effusion lymphoma, and multicentric Castleman's disease in immunocompromised patients including allograft recipients. Detection of KSHV DNA in blood, as well as host genetic polymorphisms has been found to be associated with an increased risk for KS. We investigated an association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)...
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