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For an organ transplant, it is an advantage to have an identical twin. Why?

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Very often, when some human organs like heart, eye, liver, kidney fail to function satisfactorily, transplantation is the only remedy to enable the patient to live a normal life.
Then a search begins-to find a suitable donor.
Grafts from just any source-an animal, another primate, or any human beings cannot be made since the grafts would be rejected sooner or later.
Tissue matching, blood group matching (histocompatibility) are essential before undertaking any graft/transplant and even after this the patient has to take immuno-suppresants all his/her life.
The body is able to differentiate .self. and .nonself. and the cell-mediated immune response is responsible for the graft rejection.
In an identical twin there is no chance of rejection of transplanted organ, so it is advantageous.
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