Identification of an HLA-B27 variant, B27:120, by sequence-based typing in a Taiwanese bone marrow stem cell donor

HLA. 2018 May 20. doi: 10.1111/tan.13300. Online ahead of print.

Authors

E K L Yang^{1

2}, P Y Lin¹

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Tzu Chi Cord Blood Bank, and Buddhist Tzu Chi Bone Marrow Donor Registry, Buddhist Tzu Chi Stem Cells Centre, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan.
² Department of Laboratory Medicine and Biotechnology, Buddhist Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.

PMID: 29781226
DOI: 10.1111/tan.13300

Abstract

One nucleotide substitution at residue 577 of HLA-B*27:04:01 results in a novel allele, HLA-B*27:120.

Keywords: HLA-B*27:120; Taiwanese; bone marrow; hematopoietic stem cell; sequence-based typing.

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