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Twenty-nine new HLA-B alleles associated with antigens in the 5C CREG.
Steiner NK,
Kosman C,
Jones PF,
Gans CP,
Rodriguez-Marino SG,
Rizzuto G,
Baldassarre LA,
Edson S,
Koester R,
Sese D,
Mitton W,
Ng J,
Hartzman RJ,
Hurley CK.
Departments of Oncology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
This paper describes 29 novel HLA-B locus alleles identified during low-resolution typing. The majority of the novel alleles carry new patterns of previously known polymorphic motifs or codons. Three alleles carry alterations in the Bw4/Bw6 epitope. Five alleles carry novel substitutions.
PMID: 11556976 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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