Detection of the HLA-B*40:01:35 allele in a Taiwanese individual

HLA. 2024 Mar;103(3):e15423. doi: 10.1111/tan.15423.

Kuo-Liang Yang^{1

2

3}, Py-Yu Lin¹

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, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China.
² Department of Laboratory Medicine and Biotechnology, Buddhist Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China.
³ Institute of Medical Sciences, Buddhist Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China.

Abstract

Nucleotide substitutions in codons -1 and 84 of HLA-B*40:01:01 result in a novel allele, HLA-B*40:01:35.

Keywords: HLA; HLA-B*40:01:35; Taiwanese; novel allele; sequence-based typing.