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HLA expression and HLA type associations in relation to EBV status in Hispanic Hodgkin lymphoma patients.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Fletcher Luke B, Veenstra Rianne N, Loo Eric Y, Hwang Amie E, Siddiqi Imran N, Visser Lydia, Hepkema Bouke G, Nolte Ilja M, van den Berg Anke, Cozen Wendy, Diepstra Arjan
Abstract excerpt
A proportion of classical Hodgkin lymphomas harbor the Epstein Barr virus (EBV). We previously demonstrated that associations between Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) alleles and susceptibility to EBV+ classical Hodgkin lymphoma differ between European and Chinese populations. Data on Hispanic populations is missing. Here we examined the association between HLA type, tumor cell HLA expression and other...
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