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YOU GOT QUESTIONS? WE GOT ANSWERS*. If you have a question that is not listed below, E-mail us at hlalab@wfubmc.edu. We can’t guarantee that we’ll answer each specific question; but, if there is a general interest question, we’ll consider adding it to this section. *Special thanks to John McIntyre, Ph.D. and Dawn Wagenknecht, CHS from St. Francis Hospital’s HLA laboratory in Beechgrove, Indiana for allowing us to partially reproduce information from their website! What is transplantation? What is histocompatibility? What is HLA? Why would a patient need HLA testing? How is a person’s HLA type determined? How is HLA typing performed? What other testing is performed by the HLA laboratory? What is an antibody? What is a crossmatch? What is PRA? What causes anti-HLA antibodies to develop? Can anti-HLA antibodies change? What makes HLA so complex? Why can it be so difficult to find an HLA-matched donor? What is immunogenetics? If my sibling and I have the same blood group, do we have the sa
