HLA and Disease Associations Tiwari Jawahar L.Paperback
HLA and Disease Associations Tiwari Jawahar L.Paperback The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) or tissue types are the products of a rapidly developing field of knowledge within the last 20 years. Yet in…
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HLA and Disease Associations Tiwari Jawahar L.Paperback
The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) or tissue types are the products of a rapidly developing field of knowledge within the last 20 years. Yet in the last two decades as many as 124 different HLA antigens determined by at least 7 very closely linked genes located on the short arm of chromosome 6 have been identified and subsequently agreed upon by an international nomenclature committee. In the early stages of the research many investigators suspected the existence of a complex series of transplantation antigens, but it was widely believed that these antigens would not be well-defined even in this century.
There were nine inter- national histocompatibility workshops held during this period. 1 Extensive international collaboration fueled by the potential clinical application of these antigens to clinical transplantation has advanced the field rapidly. Although iden- tification of HLA