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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2002
David H. Sachs, Newton, MA (US);
Scott Arn, North Andover, MA (US);
David H. Sachs, Newton, MA (US);
Scott Arn, North Andover, MA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a swine which is homozygous for a major histocompatibility complex haplotype and at least 60% homozygous at all other genetic loci and such animal is propagatable, and a cell or an organ derived therefrom. The invention also provides a method for providing a swine which is homozygous at swine leukocyte antigens (SLA) A, B, C, DR, and DQ, and in which at least 60% of all other genetic loci are homozygous, as well as a method of inducing tolerance in a recipient mammal of a first species to a graft from a donor mammal of a second species.