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SUBMITTER: McCarroll SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2804745 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McCarroll Steven A SA Bradner James E JE Turpeinen Hannu H Volin Liisa L Martin Paul J PJ Chilewski Shannon D SD Antin Joseph H JH Lee Stephanie J SJ Ruutu Tapani T Storer Barry B Warren Edus H EH Zhang Bo B Zhao Lue Ping LP Ginsburg David D Soiffer Robert J RJ Partanen Jukka J Hansen John A JA Ritz Jerome J Palotie Aarno A Altshuler David D
Nature genetics 20091201 12
Transplantation and pregnancy, in which two diploid genomes reside in one body, can each lead to diseases in which immune cells from one individual target antigens encoded in the other's genome. One such disease, graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT, or bone marrow transplant), is common even after transplants between HLA-identical siblings, indicating that cryptic histocompatibility loci exist outside the HLA locus. The immune system of an individ ...[more]