Article
A clinical and epidemiological study of human leukocyte antigen-DPB alleles in Hodgkin's disease.
Cancer research - 1 Oct 1994
Oza A M, Tonks S, Lim J, Fleetwood M A, Lister T A, Bodmer J G
Abstract excerpt
An international study to investigate the role of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DPB alleles in Hodgkin's disease was conducted with 17 participating centers in 12 countries. A total of 741 patients and 686 controls were typed using polymerase chain reaction amplification of HLA-DPB alleles and subsequent sequence specific oligonucleotide hybridization. The frequency of HLA-DPB1*0301 was found to be significantly...
Topics
- Alleles
- HLA-DP Antigens
- HLA-DP beta-Chains
- Hodgkin Disease
- Humans
