title: Detection of a novel variant of HLA-B*07, HLA-B*07:249, in a Taiwanese unrelated hematopoietic stem cell donor.
abstract: One nucleotide replacement at residue 398 of HLA-B*07:05:01 or HLA-B*07:06 results in a novel allele, HLA-B*07:249.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Tzu Chi Cord Blood Bank, and Buddhist Tzu Chi Bone 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 Bone 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; D003062:Codon; D005091:Exons; D015793:HLA-B7 Antigen / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017354:Point Mutation; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013624:Taiwan; D061349:Unrelated Donors
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; C425023:HLA-B*07 antigen; D015793:HLA-B7 Antigen
keywords: HLA-B*07:249; hematopoietic stem cell; human leukocyte antigen