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Cornea donation may have sex bias

Transplant failure more likely when women have male donors

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EYE OPENER  Women who receieve corneal transplants are more likely to reject them if their donors are male.

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By Amber Dance

Sex matters when it comes to cornea transplants — at least for women.

Corneas are low on the list of organs that cause rejection, but it happens more often when women receive corneas from men, researchers report online July 22 in the American Journal of Transplantation.