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Association between microsatellites within the human MHC and nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
International journal of cancer - 22 Apr 1997
Ooi E E, Ren E C, Chan S H
Abstract excerpt
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) has been known to be associated with specific HLA haplotypes, in particular HLA A2, B46 and A33, B58 haplotypes. A linkage study based on this observation suggested that HLA antigens are not the cause of NPC but that there exists a gene that lies close to if not within the major histocompatibility complex locus and confers a greatly increased relative risk of NPC. Since then, no...
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