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Association between Human Leukocyte Antigen Type and Keratinocyte Carcinoma Risk in Renal Transplant Recipients.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 May 2020
Kim Yuhree, Wojciechowski David, Pattanayak Vikram, Lee Hang, Asgari Maryam M
Abstract excerpt
Keratinocyte carcinoma (KC), defined as squamous cell carcinoma and basal cell carcinoma, is the most common malignancy among white, non-Hispanic renal transplant recipients. Although recent genome-wide association studies reported that class II HLA is associated with KC risk, epidemiologic data on HLA type and KC risk in renal transplant recipients is limited. Using an institutional cohort of white, non-Hispanic...
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