major histocompatibility complex

Researchers believe that a particular group of genes, the major histocompatibility complex, play a large role in scent production.

Approximately 65% of elite controllers carry a particular variant of the human leukocyte antigen B gene, which is located in the major histocompatibility complex region, a part of our DNA that controls the adaptive immune response to pathogens and other threats.

Doherty won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1996 with his Swiss colleague Rolf Zinkernagel for “their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell-mediated immune defence and the biological role of the major histocompatibility complex”.

One possibility is to use gene editing to remove the markers on transplanted cells, called the major histocompatibility complex, that red-flag them for the host’s immune system.

A common inhibitory receptor for major histocompatibility complex class I molecules on human lymphoid and myelomonocytic cells.