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Kidney transplants: What are the odds?
Dr. Bryan Becker, president of the National Kidney Foundation and a transplant nephrologist, said the odds that people who are not related would have a "sibling-level" match like Jennifer Mazzotta-Perretti and her student Kevin O'Brien "are pretty low."
Once there's a matchin blood type, doctors look for matches in six human leukocyte antigens, which are small proteins on each cell that aid...
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