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Identification of a 10/10 matched donor for patients with an uncommon haplotype is unlikely.
HLA - 1 Feb 2017
Olson J A, Gibbens Y, Tram K, Kempenich J, Novakovich J, Buck K, Dehn J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Despite over 6 million subjects contributing to the National Marrow Donor Program human leukocyte antigen (HLA) haplotype frequency reference data (HFD), haplotypes cannot be predicted from the HLA assignments of some patients searching for an unrelated donor (URD) in the Be The Match Registry®. We aimed to determine the incidence of these patient searches and whether haplotypes lacking from the HFD...
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