Published in Blood Weekly, November 23rd, 2006
Study 1: Chinese patients with high-risk childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) were linked to human leukocyte antigen (HLA).
"We performed a retrospective analysis on the HLA data of 53 consecutive Chinese patients with high-risk childhood ALL diagnosed from 1989 to 2003. A significantly higher frequency of HLA-B67 in the male relapse group of patients [OR, 23.08; 95% CI, 5.31-100.36; p=.0042; for statistical significance after Bonferroni correction (Be) p(Bc) <.0083] was identified after Bonferroni correction,"...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2006-11-23)
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