Lack of association between childhood common acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and an HLA-C locus dimorphism influencing the specificity of natural killer cells

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1279-1283

  Ghodsi, K ^a   Taylor, G M ^a   Gokhale, D A ^a   Dearden, S ^a   Stevens, R F ^b   Birch, J M ^b   Fergusson, W D ^a   Eden, O B ^b   Ollier, W ^c  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL MANCHESTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childhood common ALL; Genetic susceptibility; HLA C; Natural killer cells; NK1 NK2

Indexed keywords

HLA C ANTIGEN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HETEROZYGOTE; HLA-C ANTIGENS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L1; MALE;

EID: 0031694042     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1998.00919.x     Document Type: Article

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