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Impact of HLA diversity on donor selection in organ and stem cell transplantation.
Human heredity - 1 Jan 2013
Tiercy Jean-Marie, Claas Frans
Abstract excerpt
The human major histocompatibility complex is a multigene system encoding polymorphic human leucocyte antigens (HLA) that present peptides derived from pathogens to the immune system. The high diversity of HLA alleles and haplotypes in the worldwide populations represents a major barrier to organ and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, because HLA incompatibilities are efficiently recognized by T...
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