title: Two novel DRB alleles detected by PCR-SSO and confirmed by sequencing: DRB1*0317 and DRB3*0210.
abstract: We here describe two new DRB alleles (DRB1*0317 and DRB3*0210) which were detected by polymerase chain reaction using sequence-specific oligonucleotides (PCR-SSO) and confirmed by direct sequencing. The exon 2 sequence of DRB1*0317 is the result of an intergenic recombination event yielding a hybrid allele between 5'DRB1 and 3' DRB3 sequences with the recombination breakpoint located between codons 39-51. The new DRB3*0210 allele is closest related to DRB3*02021 except for a single nucleotide position at codon 51. Here, the sequence AGG at codon 51 which was a group-specific motif for all DRB3*02 alleles described previously, is replaced by the DRB consensus sequence ACG.
authors.affiliation: HLA Typing Laboratory of the Stefan-Morsch-Foundation, Birkenfeld, Germany. abuhlmann@stefan-morsch-stiftung.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Buhlmann
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Albis-Camps
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Holtkamp
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Blasczyk
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D006684:HLA-DR Antigens / Q000235:genetics*; D059811:HLA-DRB1 Chains; D059826:HLA-DRB3 Chains; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D006684:HLA-DR Antigens; D059811:HLA-DRB1 Chains; D059826:HLA-DRB3 Chains; D015345:Oligonucleotide Probes