It is all about finding the right person. More than 20,000 organ transplants have been performed in Canada over the last 10 years and routinely extend lives. But sometimes the recipient’s immune system recognizes the new organ as foreign and rejects it, which can lead to serious complications.

Classified as: genetics, Genome, genomics, Transplantation, organ donor, hla, organ transplant, McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, self, incompatibilities
Published on: 1 Oct 2015
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