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 Blood, 15 February 2007, Vol. 109, No. 4, pp. 1355-1362.
Prepublished online as a Blood First Edition Paper on September 28, 2006; DOI 10.1182/blood-2006-06-030858.

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REVIEW IN TRANSLATIONAL HEMATOLOGY

Beyond HLA: the significance of genomic variation for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Ann Mullally1, and Jerome Ritz1

1 Department of Medical Oncology, Division of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

The last 2 years have seen much excitement in the field of genetics with the identification of a formerly unappreciated level of "structural variation" within the normal human genome. Genetic structural variants include deletions, duplications, and inversions in addition to the recently discovered, copy number variants. Single nucleotide polymorphisms are the most extensively evaluated variant within the genome to date. Combining our knowledge from these studies with our rapidly accumulating understanding of structural variants, it is apparent that the extent of genetic dissimilarity between any 2 individuals is considerable and much greater than that which was previously recognized. Clearly, this more diverse view of the genome has significant implications for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, not least in the generation of transplant antigens but also in terms of individual susceptibility to transplant-related toxicities. With advances in DNA sequencing technology we now have the capacity to perform genome-wide analysis in a high throughput fashion, permitting a detailed genetic analysis of patient and donor prior to transplantation. Understanding the significance of this additional genetic information and applying it in a clinically meaningful way will be one of the challenges faced by transplant clinicians in the future.


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