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.