title: Identification of the novel HLA-B*15:257 allele by polymerase chain reaction sequence-based typing in a Chinese individual.
abstract: HLA-B*15:257 has one nucleotide change in exon 2 at position 232C>G from B*15:01:01:01.
authors.affiliation: HLA typing laboratory, Blood Center of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
authors.forename: Z-D
authors.initials: ZD
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: F-M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: H-J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Lv
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D044466:Asian People / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D005091:Exons / Q000235:genetics; D059910:HLA-B15 Antigen / Q000235:genetics*; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D059910:HLA-B15 Antigen