Improving Access to HLA-Matched Kidney Transplants for African American Patients

IntroductionKidney transplants fail more often in Black than in non-Black (White, non-Black Hispanic, and Asian) recipients. We used the estimated physicochemical immunogenicity for polymorphic amino acids of donor/recipient HLAs to select weakly immunogenic kidney transplants for Black vs. White or...

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Main Authors: Dulat Bekbolsynov, Beata Mierzejewska, Sadik Khuder, Obinna Ekwenna, Michael Rees, Robert C. Green, Stanislaw M. Stepkowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.832488/full