Xiong Baiyu, Tan Yin, Huang Yingfeng, Yang Shaoyu, Luo Hongtu, Shen Liang, Zhou Taichen, Xiao Cangjun
Department of Surgery, Guangzhou First Municipal People's Hospital Affiliated to Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510180, P. R. China.
Zhonghua Yi Xue Yi Chuan Xue Za Zhi. 2014 Dec;31(6):790-2. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.1003-9406.2014.06.025.
To confirm a new allele HLA-B*13:01:06 and analyze its nucleotide sequence.
Genomic DNA was extracted using a Qiagen DNA extraction kit. Nucleotide sequences of HLA-A, HLA-B, HLA-C and HLA-DRB1 were analyzed by polymerase chain reaction-sequence based typing (PCR-SBT). HLA high-resolution results were assigned, and the nucleotide sequences of HLA-B locus was compared with that of HLA-B*13:01:01.
The nucleotide sequence of the new allele shows a strong similarity to that of HLA-B*13:01:01. One nucleotide in exon 2 has changed from G to A at position 219 (codon 49 GCG>GCA), which however did not result in amino acid change.
The novel allele verified by sequencing has been submitted to GenBank and officially named as HLA-B*13:01:06 by the World Health Organization HLA Nomenclature Committee.