title: Identification of a novel HLA-B allele, B*27:102, in a Brazilian individual.
abstract: The HLA-B*27:102 allele may have originated by an intralocus gene conversion event.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Departamento da Ciência da Computação, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; IMUNOLAB-Laboratório de Histocompatibilidade, Imunogenética e Imunologia de Transplantes, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Fabreti-Oliveira
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nascimento
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D001483:Base Sequence; D001938:Brazil; D005091:Exons / Q000235:genetics; D015235:HLA-B Antigens / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D015235:HLA-B Antigens
keywords: Brazilian population; HLA-27:102; new allele; sequence-based typing