Transplant Medicine

Database on blood and marrow stem cell transplants now available online

Published in Cancer Weekly, March 16th, 2004

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), components of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), have launched the first public database of results from clinical blood and marrow stem cell transplants involving unrelated donors.

Accessible at www.ncbi.nih.gov/mhc, this centralized resource provides genetic as well as age, gender and ethnicity data on more than 1300 transplant donors and recipients from around the world. The database was unveiled at the 2004 Tandem Bone Marrow Transplant Meetings in Orlando, Florida.

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-03-16)

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