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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2010 Aug 25;16(11):1541–1548. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2010.08.011

Table 2.

Summary Comparison of URD and CB Availability for Patients Undergoing Combined Searches According to European versus Non-European Ancestry: European Patients were Much More Likely to Secure a 10/10 HLA-matched URD Than Non-Europeans Whereas 5–6/6 CB Were Available for Both Groups.

Europeans
(n = 341)		 Non-Europeans
(n = 184)		 p
Best URD
10/10 (n = 218) 180 (53%) 38 (21%) < 0.001
9/10 (n = 148) 99 (29%) 49 (27%)
≤ 8/10 (n = 159) 62 (18%) 97 (53%)
Best CB
5–6/6 (n = 401) 270 (79%) 131 (71%)
 6/6
 5/6 		 74
 196 		 13
 118
4/6 (n = 90) 56 (16%) 34 (18%)
No CB (n = 34) 15 (4%) 19 (10%)

Abbreviations: URD, adult unrelated volunteer donor; CB, cord blood.