title: HLA-B*40:306, a novel variant of HLA-B*40, discovered in a Taiwanese bone marrow hematopoietic stem cell donor.
abstract: One nucleotide substitution at residue 308 of the HLA-B*40:06:01:01 results in a new allele, HLA-B*40:306.
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; D019943:Amino Acid Substitution; D001483:Base Sequence; D003062:Codon; D005091:Exons; D015870:Gene Expression; D056426:Genetic Loci; D059947:HLA-B40 Antigen / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology*; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013624:Taiwan; D061349:Unrelated Donors
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; D059947:HLA-B40 Antigen
keywords: HLA‐B*40:306; bone marrow hematopoietic stem cell; human leukocyte antigen