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The Madison, Wis., company and collaborators published the characterization of the previously elusive H-Y factor in humans, an antigen that may be involved in rejection of transplants from males to females. Coded by the Y chromosome, the antigen is a minor histocompatibility factor, and resembles transcription factors.

The gene, SMCY, has a counterpart on the X chromosome, SMCX, but the two coded proteins are only 82 percent identical. Mice data generated by other researchers were published in Nature in August. ...