The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a cluster of genes encoding molecules that are important for lymphocyte activation. MHC molecules bind small fragments of proteins from inside a cell ...

Jean Dausset, who received the Nobel Prize of Medicine in 1980 for his discovery of the human major histocompatibility complex (human leukocyte antigen (HLA)), died in Palma de Majorca ...

The majority of highly polymorphic genes are related to immune functions and with over 100 alleles within a population, genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) are the most polymorphic ...