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209. Make Me a Match

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Matching a Potential Kidney Donor

Each person has their own stew of antibodies and antigens. Matching a potential kidney donor is harder than it sounds. The idea behind using alrot's algorithm was to make it so transplant centers could simply enter the medical and demographic data on potential organ donors and recipients, type in a few key strokes, and then, fama, it would produce a match.

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