title: A novel HLA allele, HLA-DRB1*15:116, discovered in a Taiwanese unrelated hematopoietic stem cell donor.
abstract: One nucleotide substitution at residue 127 of HLA-DRB1*15:01:01:01 results in a new allele, HLA-DRB1*15:116.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Tzu Chi Cord Blood Bank, and Buddhist Tzu Chi Marrow Donor Registry, Buddhist Tzu Chi Stem Cells Centre, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan.|Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Yang
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, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan.
authors.forename: P Y
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D001483:Base Sequence; D005091:Exons; D005838:Genotype; D059811:HLA-DRB1 Chains / Q000235:genetics*; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013624:Taiwan; D061349:Unrelated Donors
chemical_list: D059811:HLA-DRB1 Chains; C507799:HLA-DRB1*15 antigen
keywords: HLA-DRB1*15:116; human leukocyte antigen; unrelated hematopoietic stem cell