title: Unrelated donor matching for bone marrow transplantation.
abstract: We found that in our laboratory the MLC was interpretable in most cases, in spite of patient disease state and shipping blood from unrelated donors over great distances. Our data clearly show that DRB1 allele typing was a good predictor of MLC reactivity and we believe that MLC testing in DRB1 allele mismatched unrelated pairs is not informative. However, our data suggest that MLC testing in DRB1 allele matched unrelated pairs is informative, because many such pairs produced weak but significant allostimulation. These weak MLC reactions may guide improvements in matching unrelated donors for BMT. For example, our MLC data suggest that it is important to match unrelated donors at DRB3 alleles for BMT.
authors.affiliation: American Red Blood Services, Northeast Region, Dedham, Massachusetts 02026.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chopek
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Alosco
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Salazar
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Yunis
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D000741:Anemia, Aplastic / Q000601:surgery*; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000276:immunology*; D015234:HLA-A Antigens / Q000032:analysis; D015235:HLA-B Antigens / Q000032:analysis; D015236:HLA-C Antigens / Q000032:analysis; D006684:HLA-DR Antigens / Q000032:analysis; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D007938:Leukemia / Q000601:surgery*; D007959:Lymphocyte Culture Test, Mixed; D009190:Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Q000473:pathology*; D014019:Tissue Donors
chemical_list: D015234:HLA-A Antigens; D015235:HLA-B Antigens; D015236:HLA-C Antigens; D006684:HLA-DR Antigens