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The University of Osaka

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Adding a one-sentence "matching-difficulty" message to the HLA match letter raised the share of donors reaching confirmatory typing (CT) from 22.2% to 23.9% (+1.63 points; +7.3% relative).

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2026 Kato H. & Ohtake F. et al., The University of Osaka (CiDER). Original graphic created for this press release; based on data from the JEBO (2026) paper (CC BY 4.0).

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