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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2010 Feb 16;16(5):1642–1651. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-09-2701

Table 2.

Clinical characteristics of patients evaluated for T cell response to HY epitopes.


FM group n=28
MM group n=22
P value
Age (median)
48 (19-64)
52 (19-63)
0.76
Indication for HSCT
Leukemia/ MDS 17/28 (60%) 12/22 (55%) 0.71
CLL / NHL / HD 10/28 (36%) 8/22 (36%)
Other (MM, SAA, CMML)
1/28 (4%)
2/22 (9%)

Conditioning Regimen
Myeloablative 10/28 (36%) 9/22 (40%) 0.77
Non-myeloablative
18/28 (64%)
13/22 (60%)

Stem Cell Source
Mobilized peripheral blood 26/28 (93%) 20/22 (91%) 1
Bone marrow
2/28 (7%)
2/22 (9%)

Donor Source: HLA-identical
Unrelated donors 9/28 (32%) 13/22 (59%) 0.09
Related donors
19/28 (68%)
9/22 (41%)

Acute GVHD (grade 2-4)
10/28(36)
1/22(5)
0.01
Chronic GVHD 28/28 18/22 0.06
Limited 8/28 (29%) 6/22 (27%)
Extensive
20/28 (71%)
12/22 (55%)

Date of Sample (median and range)
Days post- transplant 855 (200-2531) 609 (189-2407) 0.14

FM: male patients with female donors. MM: male patients with male donors. MDS: myelodysplastic syndrome, CLL: chronic lymphocytic leukemia, NHL: non Hodgkin lymphoma, HD: Hodgkin's disease, MM: multiple myeloma, SAA: severe aplastic anemia, CMML: chronic myelo-monocytic leukemia.