An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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Histocompatibility genes of the mouse.

J. nat. Cancer Inst., 20, 787- 824; 21, 843-75, 1958.

Snell made fundamental contributions to transplantation genetics. At his suggestion genes governing transplantation were called histocompatibility genes and Gorer’s Antigen II became Histocompatibility-2 (H-2).

In 1980 Snell shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with B. Benacerraf and J. Dausset "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions."



Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY, IMMUNOLOGY, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , TRANSPLANTATION
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