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Can organs/tissues be transplanted between races and sexes?
In most cases, yes. Organ size and blood type are critical to match donor and recipient hearts, livers and lungs. Genetic makeup between kidney donors and recipients is more critical; due to genetic makeup, African-Americans will "match" better with a kidney donated from an African-American than any other race -- as will Asians to Asians, etc.
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