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How Ancestry Influences the Chances of Finding Unrelated Donors: An Investigation in Admixed Brazilians.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2020
Nunes Kelly, Aguiar Vitor R C, Silva Márcio, Sena Alexandre C, de Oliveira Danielli C M, Dinardo Carla L, Kehdy Fernanda S G, Tarazona-Santos Eduardo, Rocha Vanderson G, Carneiro-Proietti Anna Barbara F, Loureiro Paula, Flor-Park Miriam V, Maximo Claudia, Kelly Shannon, Custer Brian, Weir Bruce S, Sabino Ester C, Porto Luís Cristóvão, Meyer Diogo
Abstract excerpt
A match of HLA loci between patients and donors is critical for successful hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. However, the extreme polymorphism of HLA loci - an outcome of millions of years of natural selection - reduces the chances that two individuals will carry identical combinations of multilocus HLA genotypes. Further, HLA variability is not homogeneously distributed throughout the world: African...
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