Patients with either of two genes associated with autoimmune disorders, HLA-DR2 and HLA-DR4, have gone five years without any progression of the disease.

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Absent from the honors boards were the names of Nyunt Hlaing, Hla Kyi, Tin Chaw and Kyaw Min.

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Of course, it is not something that Hla Kyi, 55, is ever likely to get a chance to read.

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But Hla Min insisted that the country had never pursued nuclear weapons.

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He found a link between HLA and the regions of junk.

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"I am not sure who would even accept responsibility for his release because there is no guarantee he would not do this again, " Hla Min added.

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Patients with more diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, including African Americans, Latinos and Asians, tend to have more diverse HLA types, which makes it even harder to find donors.

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Mervyn Jacobson read about Simons' bumpy journey and was smitten with the idea of finding value in junk DNA. In 1989 they formed GeneType and applied for their first patent covering noncoding regions and HLA. In 2000 GeneType pulled off a reverse merger with a publicly traded Australian shell company that formerly mined for gold.

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