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Nature of HLA-associated predisposition to childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Leukemia - 1 May 1995
Dorak M T, Owen G, Galbraith I, Henderson N, Webb D, Mills K I, Darke C, Burnett A K
Abstract excerpt
A molecular analysis was carried out in 63 sequentially diagnosed childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients and 1011 controls to investigate the homozygosity rate for HLA-DR53. HLA-DR53 is associated with acute myeloblastic leukemia at the protein level, and our previous study has shown its association with early-onset chronic myeloid leukemia only in homozygous form at the DNA level. In the present...
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