Ms Adiba Hussain
Research Associate
- Email: ahussain@manchester.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)161 276 6498
Biography
Joined the Cancer Immunogenetics Laboratory in 1996 to work on the United Kingdom Childhood Cancer Study (UKCCS), a national epidemiological case-control study designed to identify the causes of childhood cancer and leukaemia. Currently working on HLA associated genetic susceptibility studies in childhood Hodgkins Disease on a project funded by the NIH.
Publications
2009
- Taylor, GM, Hussain, A, Verhage, V, Thompson, PD, Fergusson, W, Watkins, G, Lightfoot, T, Harrison, C, Birch, JM, NULL. (2009). Strong association of the HLA-DP6 supertype with childhood leukaemia is due to a single allele, DPB1*0601. Leukemia, 23( 5), eScholarID:1d32365 | DOI:10.1038/leu.2008.374
2008
- Taylor GM, Hussain A, Lightfoot T, Birch JM, Eden OB, Greaves M. (2008). HLA-associated susceptibility to childhood B-cell precursor ALL: definition and role of HLA-DPB1 supertypes. Br J Cancer, 98( 6), eScholarID:1d19672 | DOI:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604257
2004
- Taylor JA, Hussain A, Kennedy JA, Grufferman S, Eden OB, Taylor GM. (2004). Preliminary results of sequenced based typing suggest that susceptibility to childhood Hodgkin's Lymphoma in females is associated with HLA-DRB1*1502. European Journal of cancer, 40, 2280-2286. eScholarID:1d4609