title: Two novel null HLA-A alleles with identical exon 4 nonsense mutations: HLA-A*24:183N and A*02:356N.
abstract: HLA-A*24:183N, A*02:356N, and A*02:15N share the same stop codon at the same position in exon 4.
authors.affiliation: Research and Development Department, Central Blood Institute, Japanese Red Cross Society, Tokyo, Japan. ma-shimizu@jrc.or.jp
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shimizu
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okazaki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Satake
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tadokoro
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D001483:Base Sequence; D001782:Blood Donors; D003062:Codon; D018389:Codon, Nonsense; D005091:Exons; D015234:HLA-A Antigens / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; D018389:Codon, Nonsense; D015234:HLA-A Antigens
keywords: HLA-A*02:15N; HLA-A*02:356N; HLA-A*24:183N; null allele; point mutation