title: Probability of Finding Marrow Unrelated Donor (MUD) for an Indian patient in a Multi-national Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) Registry.
abstract: With an increase in the number of transplants happening globally, hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) transplantation from matched unrelated donor (MUD) has begun. The increasing trend of MUD transplants across countries has been largely facilitated with the conspicuous growth of volunteer HSC donor noted in the last decade i.e. 8 million HSC donors in 2002 to more than 22 million in 2013 registered in 71 member registries of the Bone Marrow Donor Worldwide (BMDW). Some populations of the world are still very poorly represented in these registries. Since, the chances of successful engraftment and disease free survival are directly proportional to the HLA compatibility between the recipient and the prospective donor, the diversity of the HLA system at the antigenic and allelic level and the heterogeneity of HLA data of the registered donors has a bearing on the probability of finding a volunteer unrelated HSC donor for patients from such populations. In the present study 126 patients were identified suffering from hematological diseases requiring MUD transplant. Their HLA typing was performed and search was done using BMDW database. The search results for these Indian patients in the multinational registry as well as in the Indian Registries were analyzed using mean, range, standard deviation and finally evaluated in terms of probability for finding matched donor (MUD). Total Asian population is only 11 % in the BMDW making it difficult to find a MUD for an Asian patient. The current study supports this, experimentally; revealing that the probability of finding an allele match for an Indian patient in the multinational Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) registries is 16 % and a dismal 0.008 % in the Indian registries (donors in Indian registries is just 33,678 as compared to 22.5 million in BMDW). This greatly, emphasizes on enhancing the number of Indian donors in Indian and multi-national registries.
authors.affiliation: Transfusion Medicine, Medanta- The Medicity, Gurgaon, India.
authors.forename: Aseem K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Tiwari
authors.affiliation: Nanobiotechnology, Bharat Stem Cell, c/o Safe Blood Organization, 209-C, II and III Floor, South Extension, Masjid Moth, New Delhi, 110049 India.
authors.forename: Himakshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bhati-Kushwaha
authors.affiliation: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Bharat Stem Cell, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Pooja
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kukreja
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology, Bharat Stem Cell, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Vikash C
authors.initials: VC
authors.lastname: Mishra
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology, Molecular Biology Laboratory, Medanta-The Medicity, Gurgaon, India.
authors.forename: Neetu
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tyagi
authors.affiliation: Medical Laboratory Technology, Bharat Stem Cell, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Ashish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.affiliation: Molecular Genetics & Transplant, Immunology Laboratory, Medanta-The Medicity, Gurgaon, India.
authors.forename: Vimarsh
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Raina
keywords: Allelic; Antigenic; HLA; HSC; MUD
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