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SNELL, George Davis (1903 – 1996)

1903 – 1996

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

1958 CE

#2578.30

Histocompatibility genes of the mouse.

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). …

1968 CE

#2578.38

The H-2 locus of the mouse: observations and speculations concerning its comparative genetics and its polymorphism.

Antigen II, discovered by Gorer (No. 2576.5), was studied by Snell and became known as the product of the H-2 locus, the fundamental locus in the history of mammalian transplant biology.