title: [A new HLA-B antigen: HLA-Bw 59].
abstract: The HLA-B8 antigen is one of the well-defined and characteristic antigens associated with organ specific autoimmune diseases in Caucasians. In the Japanese, HLA-B8 positives have been assumed to be extremely rare. By using some HLA-B8 typing sera, a new HLA-B antigen, HLA-Bw4 positive, was found in the Japanese. This new HLA-B antigen, tentatively named HOK-1, showed a phenotype frequency of 3.7% and a gene frequency of 1.9 +/- 0.6%. The strong linkage disequilibrium was noted between HOK-1 and HLA-Cw1 genes. HOK-1 antigenic specificity was assigned as HLA-Bw 59 by the WHO nomenclature committee after the 8th International Histocompatibility Workshop. There were no significant associations of this antigen with following diseases: rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis vulgaris, myasthenia gravis, Behcet's disease and asthma, so far as, in the Japanese, compared with that the HLA-B8 antigen has a characteristic association with organ specific autoimmune diseases in Caucasian.
mesh_terms: D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000276:immunology; D001249:Asthma / Q000276:immunology; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000276:immunology; D000939:Epitopes; D005260:Female; D006680:HLA Antigens / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D015235:HLA-B Antigens; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000276:immunology; D011565:Psoriasis / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000939:Epitopes; D006680:HLA Antigens; D015235:HLA-B Antigens; C082943:HLA-B59 antigen