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In some cases, a tissue type test may be done to see whether a person has a chance for developing certain diseases that cause the body to attack its own cells, such as autoimmune diseases. A special pattern of antigens (called tissue type) is present on each person's cells and tissues.
Tissue typing. Tissue typing is a procedure in which the tissues of a prospective donor and recipient are tested for compatibility prior to transplantation. An embryo can be tissue typed to ensure that the embryo implanted can be a cord-blood stem cell donor for a sick sibling. One technique of tissue typing, mixed leukocyte reaction, is performed by culturing lymphocytes from the donor together with those from the recipient.