Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A link between condylomas, or genital warts, and the human leukocyte antigen system could suggest a genetic risk ...

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing is important in organ transplantation protocols, as they determine the likelihood of rejection. The HLA system is little understood, however. In simple terms, the ...

Dr. Jean Dausset, the French Nobel laureate who discovered the human leukocyte antigen, or HLA, system on human tissue that made tissue typing for transplants possible, died June 6 in Mallorca, Spain.

Determining the specificity of HLA antibodies is arguably one of the most important contributions by the HLA laboratory today. For patients that have low-to-moderate levels of antibody, using a ...

The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system has an important role in the regulation of the immune system; the HLA recognizes cells as ‘non-self’ or ‘self’ to prevent the body from attacking its own cells ...

HLA testing has been a staple in transplantation since the recognition that antibodies, directed against lymphocytes, were associated with allograft failure. This seminal finding led to the discovery ...