Article
HLA-DQ1 is associated with clinical response and survival of patients with melanoma who are treated with interleukin-2.
Therapeutic immunology - 1 Feb 1995
Rubin J T, Day R, Duquesnoy R, Simonis B, Adams S, Lee J, Lotze M T
Abstract excerpt
AIM: The risk of developing melanoma, the natural history of this disease, and the response to therapy with biological reagents may be determined, in part, by a patient's human leukocyte antigen (HLA) phenotype. In order to study this, the relationship between HLA type and clinical response to therapy with interleukin-2 (IL-2) was evaluated. METHODS: We retrospectively determined the HLA phenotype of 82 patients...
Topics
- Alleles
- Gene Frequency
- HLA-DQ Antigens
- Humans
- Interleukin-2
- Melanoma
- Phenotype
- Prognosis
- Retrospective Studies
