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Molecular analysis of HLA-DQB1 alleles in childhood common acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
British journal of cancer - 1 Mar 1996
Dearden S P, Taylor G M, Gokhale D A, Robinson M D, Thompson W, Ollier W, Binchy A, Birch J M, Stevens R F, Carr T, Bardsley W G
Abstract excerpt
Epidemiological studies suggest that childhood common acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (c-ALL) may be the rare outcome of early post-natal infection with a common infectious agent. One of the factors that may determine whether a child succumbs to c-ALL is how it responds to the candidate infection. Since immune responses to infection are under the partial control of (human leucocyte antigen) HLA genes, an...
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