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Are HLA-E*0103 alleles predictive markers for nasopharyngeal cancer risk?
Pathology, research and practice - 1 Apr 2016
Douik Hayet, Romdhane Neila Attia, Guemira Fethi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a particular entity of head neck cancer, tightly related to Epstein-Barr virus infection and thus to HLA genes. In this study, we aimed to analyze HLA-E polymorphism in NPC advent and prognosis. 130 unrelated patients with CNP and 180 unrelated and healthy controls were included in our study. HLA-E genotyping was performed by PCR/RFLP method; SPSS (13.0) was used for...
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