“…Polymorphisms of TAP genes have been associated with various diseases such as tuberculosis (Wang et al, 2012), ankylosing spondylitis (Feng et al, 2009), leprosy (Shinde et al, 2013), idiopathic bronchiectasis (Dogru et al, 2007), cystic fibrosis (Ozbas-Gerceker et al, 2002) and also with the risk of occurence of several malignant tumors including colon cancer (Yang et al, 2005), cervical carcinoma (Mehta et al, 2007) and esophageal carcinoma (Cao et al, 2005). To the best of our knowledge there has been no study on the association of TAP gene polymorphisms with hematological malignancies.…”