title: The novel HLA-DRB1*15:140 allele discovered in a Taiwanese unrelated hematopoietic stem cell donor.
abstract: One nucleotide substitution at residue 91 of HLA-DRB1*15:02:01:01 results in a new allele, HLA-DRB1*15:140.
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, Republic of China.|Department of Laboratory Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, Republic of China.
authors.forename: K L
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-7440-2318
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: C.W. Bill Young Marrow Donor Center, Rockville, Maryland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ng
authors.affiliation: C.W. Bill Young Marrow Donor Center, Rockville, Maryland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lazaro
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, Republic of China.
authors.forename: P Y
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D019943:Amino Acid Substitution; D001483:Base Sequence; D003062:Codon / Q000737:chemistry; D005091:Exons; D015870:Gene Expression; D059811:HLA-DRB1 Chains / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013624:Taiwan; D061349:Unrelated Donors
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; D059811:HLA-DRB1 Chains; C507799:HLA-DRB1*15 antigen
keywords: HLA-DRB1*15:140; Taiwanese; hematopoietic stem cell; human leukocyte antigen; sequence-based typing