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We recruited 70 Moroccan children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), 39 of whom had BCP-ALL and were eligible for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, compared to a control group of 136 healthy children. Patients and controls were subjected to HLA class I and II typing, utilizing either sequence-specific primers (SSPs) or sequence-specific oligonucleotides (SSOs) in polymerase chain reaction-based techniques. The findings indicated significantly elevated frequencies of HLA-A*68 and B*14 in pediatric patients with ALL relative to the control group (p = 0.001 and p = 0.02, respectively). The frequencies of HLA-DRB1*01 and DQB1*05 allele groups were considerably elevated in children with ALL and BCP-ALL compared to the controls (p &lt; 0.01 for both). The findings of our study indicate that HLA-A*68, -B*14, -DRB1*01, and DQB1*05 may serve as potential predisposing immunogenetic variables for the development of juvenile acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). 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