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Women Not Fond Of Cornea Transplants If They Come From Men

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Women who receieve corneal transplants are more likely to reject them if their donors are male. In the July 22nd online edition of the American Journal of Transplantation, researchers report corneas are low on the list of organs that cause rejection, but it happens more often when women receive corneas from men. In data from nearly 17,000 transplants, 220 of every 1,000 male-to-female transplants failed versus 180 of every 1,000 sex-matched donations. For men, the donor’s sex didn’t matter. The researchers suspect the problem is the H-Y antigen, found on the surface of most cells in a man’s body. Study coauthor Stephen Kaye is an ophthalmologist at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in England. According to Science News, Kaye says the gene that encodes H-Y is on the Y chromosome, so women don’t have it. If their immune systems haven’t encountered the H-Y antigen before, women’s bodies may take it as a sign of a foreign invader and attack the transplant.

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