title: HLA-B*40:01:44, a novel variant of HLA-B*40:01, discovered in a Taiwanese hematopoietic stem cell donor.
abstract: One nucleotide replacement at residue 147 of HLA-B*40:01:01 results in a new allele, HLA-B*40:01:44.
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; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D003062:Codon; D005091:Exons; D005838:Genotype; D059947:HLA-B40 Antigen / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D017354:Point Mutation; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013624:Taiwan; D061349:Unrelated Donors
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; D059947:HLA-B40 Antigen
keywords: HLA-B*40:01:44; bone marrow; hematopoietic stem cell; human leukocyte antigen; novel allele