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Human leukocyte antigen distribution and genomic ancestry in Brazilian patients with sickle cell disease.
HLA - 1 Oct 2017
da Silva-Malta M C F, Rodrigues P S, Zuccherato L W, de Souza F C B, Domingues E M F L, Souza V R, Tarazona-Santos E, Martins M L
Abstract excerpt
Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) is currently the only established curative treatment for sickle cell disease (SCD), but is limited by donor availability. Ethnicity is thought to have an impact on the complications experienced by patients that undergo HSCT and on the likelihood of identifying an human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matched donor. In the present study, we investigated the genomic ancestry...
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