Reassessing the impact of donor HLA-C genotype on long-term liver transplant survival: Brief communications

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1674-1678

  Tran, T H ^a   Middleton, D ^b   Dohler B ^a   Scherer, S ^a   Meenagh, A ^b   Sleator, C ^b   Opelz, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic polymorphism; Liver transplantation; Natural killer cells

Indexed keywords

HLA C ANTIGEN; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER DONOR; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; ALLELES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HETEROZYGOTE; HLA-C ANTIGENS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, KIR; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DONORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649659668     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2009.02609.x     Document Type: Article

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