title: The effect of HLA matching on kidney-graft survival.
abstract: All human skin grafts, even those perfectly matched for HLA antigens, are eventually rejected, some acutely, while over half the completely mismatched transplanted kidneys survive for more than a year. There is no doubt that the HLA system is the major human histocompatibility complex but, as Alan Ting shows in this article, the assessment of its influence on graft outcome is complex.
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, U.K.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ting