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Recruiting refugees and migrants as potential hematopoietic stem cell donors to serve patients of comparable ethnicities with rare human leucocyte antigen patterns - The BluStar.NRW project in North Western Germany.
Transplant immunology - 1 Feb 2024
Heinemann F M, Baumgart C, Binder C, Börger V, Fischer J C, Heinold A, Jiménez Klingberg C, Lenz V, Riebschläger S, Zeiler T, Horn P A, Kordelas L
Abstract excerpt
Currently, approximately 19 million people with a migration background live in Germany. The majority of those descend from regions where the population has a genetically different distribution of HLA antigens when compared to the HLA frequencies usually found in North Western Europe. In case of severe haematological disorders of these individuals, allogeneic stem cell transplantation may be the treatment of...
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