“…Cancer susceptibility is historically linked to the histocompatibility loci. The earliest disease susceptibility study in animals examining MHC effects highlighted its role in leukaemia in mice (Lilly, Boyse, & Old, 1964) followed by other cancers (Oomen, Van der Valk, & Den Engelse, 1983) including breast (Dux & Demant, 1987;Muhlbock & Dux, 1974;Ropcke, Moen, Hart, & Demant, 1990) and lung cancer (Demant, Oomen, & Oudshoorn-Snoek, 1989;Oomen et al, 1983;Snoek et al, 2000). Those studies were not limited to virally induced leukaemia and mammary tumours, but also examined spontaneous, chemically and hormonally induced tumours.…”