title: HLA-B*15:327, a novel variant of HLA-B*15, discovered in a Taiwanese unrelated hematopoietic stem cell donor.
abstract: One nucleotide substitution at residue 86 of HLA-B*15:27:01 results in a new allele, HLA-B*15:327.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Tzu Chi Cord Blood Bank, and Buddhist Tzu Chi 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.affiliation: Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Tzu Chi Cord Blood Bank, and Buddhist Tzu Chi Marrow Donor Registry, Buddhist Tzu Chi Stem Cells Centre, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan.
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)/University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Tzu Chi Cord Blood Bank, and Buddhist Tzu Chi Marrow Donor Registry, Buddhist Tzu Chi Stem Cells Centre, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan.
authors.forename: P Y
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D019943:Amino Acid Substitution; D001483:Base Sequence; D003062:Codon; D005091:Exons; D015870:Gene Expression; D059910:HLA-B15 Antigen / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D013624:Taiwan; D061349:Unrelated Donors
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; D059910:HLA-B15 Antigen
keywords: HLA-B*15:327; human leukocyte antigen; unrelated hematopoietic stem cell