Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, update March 2018

The following sequences have been submitted to the Nomenclature Committee since the February 2018 nomenclature update and, following agreed policy, have been assigned official allele designations (Marsh et al. (2010)). Full details of all sequences will be published in a forthcoming report. Below are listed the newly assigned sequences (Table 1) and confirmations of previously reported sequences (Table 2). The accession number of each sequence is given, and these can be used to retrieve the sequence files from the EMBL, GenBank or DDBJ data libraries. Although accession numbers have been assigned by the data libraries, and most sequences are already available, there is still the possibility that an author may not yet have allowed the sequence to be released; in such a case, you will have to contact the submitting author directly. Additional information pertaining to new sequences is often included in the publications describing these alleles; a listing of recent publications that describe new HLA sequences is given in Table 3. The sequence C*02:16:01 has been shown to be identical to C*02:137, and the name C*02:16:01 has now been abandoned. The sequence A*30:02:12 is no longer identical to the corrected A*30:100 sequence, and consequently, the name A*30:02:12 has been reinstated. All new and confirmatory sequences should now be submitted directly to the WHO Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System via the IPDIMGT/HLA database using the sequence submission tool provided (Robinson et al. (2015)). The IPDIMGT/ HLA database may be accessed via the World Wide Web at: www. ebi.ac.uk/ipd/imgt/hla

[1]  J. Im,et al.  Four novel alleles in Korean individuals, HLA‐B*40:323, DRB1*14:177, DQB1*03:200, and DQB1*06:205 , 2018, HLA.

[2]  B. Hauck-Dlimi,et al.  Identification of the novel allele, HLA‐C*01:136 in a German cord blood donor originating from Azerbaijan , 2018, HLA.

[3]  J. Im,et al.  Identification of the novel HLA‐C*03 allele, HLA‐C*03:03:35 , 2018, HLA.

[4]  M. I. Vega,et al.  Characterization of the novel HLA allele: B*14:58 , 2018, HLA.

[5]  B. Xi,et al.  Identification of a novel HLA‐A*33 allele, HLA‐A*33:138 , 2018, HLA.

[6]  F. Zhu,et al.  Identification of the novel HLA‐B*40:333 allele by polymerase chain reaction sequence‐based typing , 2018, HLA.

[7]  J. Im,et al.  Three novel HLA alleles discovered in Koreans, HLA‐A*26:118, DQB1*02:65 and DPB1*05:01:07 , 2018, HLA.

[8]  Z. Grubic,et al.  Identification of the novel HLA‐B*18:37:02 allele in a Croatian individual , 2018, HLA.

[9]  G. Guidicelli,et al.  Characterization of the novel HLA‐A*24:391 allele by sequencing‐based typing , 2018, HLA.

[10]  J. Im,et al.  A new HLA‐DQB1*04 allele, HLA‐DQB1*04:01:05, identified in a Korean individual , 2018, HLA.

[11]  S. Fornaciari,et al.  Identification of the new HLA‐DPB1 allele, DPB1*647:01, in an Italian patient with leukemia , 2018, HLA.

[12]  K. Yang,et al.  Identification of a novel HLA‐C allele, HLA‐C*15:151, in a Taiwanese individual , 2018, HLA.

[13]  G. Guidicelli,et al.  Characterization of the novel HLA‐C*16:116 allele by sequencing‐based typing , 2018, HLA.

[14]  A. Balas,et al.  Characterization of a novel HLA‐DRB1*07 allele, DRB1*07:83 , 2018, HLA.

[15]  G. Guidicelli,et al.  Characterization of the novel HLA‐B*07:305 allele by sequencing‐based typing , 2018, HLA.

[16]  F. Wang,et al.  The novel null allele, HLA‐B*40:338N, was identified in a Chinese leukemia patient , 2018, HLA.

[17]  James Robinson,et al.  The IPD and IMGT/HLA database: allele variant databases , 2014, Nucleic Acids Res..

[18]  W. Bodmer,et al.  Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, 2010 , 2010, Tissue antigens.

[19]  M. Torres,et al.  Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system. , 2011, Bulletin of the World Health Organization.