ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 2998 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Coline GENTIL1, Julie Randolph-Habecker2, David. K. Madtes3,4, Min FANG5, Hilary S. Gammill6, Corinne L. Fligner7, McGarry, A. Houghton3,8 and J. Lee Nelson9,10, 1Clinical Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, SEATTLE, WA, 2Histopathology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, SEATTLE, WA, 3Clinical Research, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, SEATTLE, WA, 4University of Washington, SEATTLE, WA, 5Cytogenetics, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, SEATTLE, WA, 6Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 7Pathology, University of Washington, SEATTLE, WA, 8Pulmonary medicine, University of Washington, SEATTLE, WA, 9Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, 10University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Microchimerism (Mc), harboring a small number of cells (or DNA) that originated in a different individual, occurs commonly due to bi-directional maternal-fetal exchange during…