Actually a growing body of evidence indicates the effect of MHC on mate choice is still up in the air: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453008002667
This is apparently one of those cases where the popular press focused on the exciting result and then ignored the other papers that failed to reproduce it.
The study results for lesbian women are no longer on speaking terms.
Actually a growing body of evidence indicates the effect of MHC on mate choice is still up in the air: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453008002667
This is apparently one of those cases where the popular press focused on the exciting result and then ignored the other papers that failed to reproduce it.