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Immunogenetics of HLA-DP — A New View of Permissible Mismatches
12 Aug 2015
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In this issue of the Journal, Petersdorf and colleagues1 report an association between high-expression HLA-DP variants in patients receiving hematopoietic-cell transplantation for severe blood disorders and acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Acute GVHD is a major hurdle in successful treatment.HLA-DP molecules are immunoglobulin family cell-surface heterodimers encoded by the polymorphic DPA1 and DPB1 loci...
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