title: HLA-A*02:541, a novel variant of HLA-A*02, discovered in a Taiwanese unrelated hematopoietic stem cell donor.
abstract: Two nucleotide changes at residue 524 and residue 527 of HLA-A*02:07:01 results in a novel allele, HLA-A*02:541.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Tzu Chi Cord Blood Bank, and Buddhist Tzu Chi Bone Marrow Donor Registry, Buddhist Tzu Chi Stem Cells Centre, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.forename: P Y
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D044466:Asian People; D001483:Base Sequence; D005091:Exons; D005838:Genotype; D015789:HLA-A2 Antigen / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D061349:Unrelated Donors
chemical_list: C524866:HLA-A*02 antigen; D015789:HLA-A2 Antigen
keywords: HLA-A*02:541; hematopoietic stem cell; human leukocyte antigen