The success of bone marrow transplantation depends on whether transplanted immune cells respond in graft versus host disease. A new study identifies a common gene deletion that is associated with immune response following transplantation.
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Armour, J. Copy number variation and antigenic repertoire. Nat Genet 41, 1263–1264 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1209-1263
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