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The major histocompatibility complex is a set of cell surface molecules encoded by a large gene family which controls a major part of the immune system in all vertebrates. Major histocompatibility complex molecules mediate interactions of leukocytes, also called white blood cells, which are immune cells, with other leukocytes or with body cells.
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