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THE NUMBER OF AMINO ACID TRIPLET DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PATIENT AND DONOR IS PREDICTIVE FOR THE ANTIBODY REACTIVITY AGAINST MISMATCHED HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGENS1
1 Apr 2004
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BACKGROUND: The correlation between antibody production against mismatched donor human leukocyte antigens (HLA) and the number of amino acid sequence mismatches was analyzed in patients who rejected a kidney transplant (n=146). METHODS: A similar analysis was performed for the antibody production of women against the paternal HLA antigens of their child (n=1,397). The amino acid sequence (triplet) differences...
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