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Scientists at Chan Zuckerberg (CZ) Biohub, Mayo Clinic and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), have discovered an autoimmune disease that appears to affect men with testicular cancer. A postdoctoral fellow in the DeRisi lab, Caleigh Mandel-Brehm, led the study together with a clinical fellow at the Mayo Clinic, Divyanshu Dubey. Using a combination of customized programmable phage display, immunohistochemical staining, and other techniques, antibodies to the protein Kelch-like Protein 11 (KLHL11) was identified as a highly specific marker of a new paraneoplastic autoimmune syndrome associated with seminoma in men.

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