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Polymorphism of adhesion molecule CD31 and its role in acute graft-versus-host disease.
The New England journal of medicine - 1 Feb 1996
Behar E, Chao N J, Hiraki D D, Krishnaswamy S, Brown B W, Zehnder J L, Grumet F C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) caused by poorly defined minor (i.e., other than HLA) histocompatibility antigens remains a serious problem in recipients of bone marrow transplants. We sought to determine whether the CD31 adhesion molecule is a minor alloantigen. METHODS: We directly sequenced samples of complementary DNA (cDNA) encoding CD31 molecules from 21 unrelated normal subjects....
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