He received his Ph.D. in immunogenetics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977. (lcgb.org)
To further test that idea, Westendorp and his group are now hunting for immunogenetic factors associated with fertility or long life span among several thousand people in Ghana, a country that still tends toward large families while also experiencing the evolutionary pressure applied by prevalent — and deadly — infectious diseases. (sciencemag.org)
«Before we knew about these persisting fetal cells, and the persisting maternal cells, researchers didn't often analyze their data according to difference in sex,» says J. Lee Nelson, a professor of human immunogenetics at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and a co-author on the rheumatoid arthritis study. (scientificamerican.com)