title: A novel human leukocyte antigen (HLA) allele, HLA-DRB1*08:71, was found in a Taiwanese unrelated hematopoietic stem cell donor.
abstract: One nucleotide substitution at residue 367 of HLA-DRB1*08:03:02 results in a new allele, HLA-DRB1*08:71.
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, Ontario, 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 / Q000235:genetics; D059811:HLA-DRB1 Chains / Q000235:genetics*; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D013624:Taiwan; D061349:Unrelated Donors
chemical_list: D059811:HLA-DRB1 Chains
keywords: HLA-DRB1*08:71; human leukocyte antigen; unrelated hematopoietic stem cell