Department of Immunopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
A new HLA-B allele (B*4093) in a North Indian Hindu donor differing from B*4006 by four nucleotide substitutions in codon 41.1, codon 44.3, codon 45.1 and codon 50.3 has been identified. This novel allele was part of the A*0211-B*4093-Cw*1502-DRB1*15-DQB1*06 HLA haplotype.