A patient is suspected of having follicular lymphoma, and his physician would like additional laboratory tests performed to confirm or rule out the diagnosis. Which of the following tests should be performed?

Polymorphisms in the HLA locus arise primarily through which type of genetic event?

In PCR-SSOP, the HLA allele is identified based on which of the following?

In accepted HLA nomenclature for identifying HLA alleles by DNA sequence information, the fourth specific allele of the HLA-A31 family would be noted as which of the following?

What does the term HLA-DQ designate?

A patient’s diagnosis is ataxia-telangiectasia. The physician wants to know if the patient has a mutation associated with increased risk for developing cancer. Which of the following genes should be examined for mutations in this patient?

Which of the following methods that can be used to determine HLA types is only a low-resolution method?

Which is a nucleic acid–based test?

Mutations in the VHL gene are associated with what condition?

Which of the following targets is tissue specific but not necessarily tumor specific?