Nomenclature for Factors of the HLA System

February 2005

Compiled by Steven G. E. Marsh for the WHO Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System.

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The following sequences have been submitted to the Nomenclature Committee since the January 2005 nomenclature update and, following agreed policy, have been assigned official allele designations. Full details of all sequences will be published in a forthcoming report.

Below are listed the newly assigned sequences (Table 1) and confirmations of previously reported sequences (Table 2). The accession number of each sequence is given and these can be used to retrieve the sequence files from either the EMBL, GenBank or DDBJ data libraries. Although accession numbers have been assigned by the data libraries and most sequences are already available, there is still the possibility that an author may not yet have allowed the sequence to be released, in such a case you will have to contact the submitting author directly.

All new and confirmatory sequences should now be submitted directly to the WHO Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System via the IMGT/HLA Database using the sequence submission tool provided. The IMGT/HLA Database may be accessed via the world wide web at : http://ww.ebi.ac.uk/imgt/hla/.

Table 1: New Sequences


Sequence Cell Identification Accession Number Submitting Author
A*027402 VTIS12570 AY829217,
AY829218		 Brian D. Tait, Melbourne, Australia
A*1123 NT00516 AY903431,
AY903432		 Carolyn K. Hurley, Washington, U.S.A.
A*2451 14721 AY904343 Jianping Li, Liaoning, China
A*3014L 986125 AY323229 Kaimo Hirv, Ulm, Germany
A*3015 VTIS126747 AY829225,
AY829226		 Brian D. Tait, Melbourne, Australia
B*0740 NJ6548 AY758393,
AY758394,
AY758395		 Chengya Wang, Nanjing, China
B*0823 MHH-0305726 AJ878870 Rainer Blasczyk, Hannover, Germany
B*1599 NT00518 AY877255,
AY877256		 Carolyn K. Hurley, Washington, U.S.A.
B*2728 NT00514 AY877253,
AY877254		 Carolyn K. Hurley, Washington, U.S.A.
B*350103 TBC52130 AB200230 Masahiro Satake, Tokyo, Japan
B*3558 NT00565 AY907708,
AY907709		 Carolyn K. Hurley, Washington, U.S.A.
B*3559 R503 AY904045 Susana G. Rodriguez-Marino, Chicago, U.S.A.
B*510106 NT00525 AY877251,
AY877252		 Carolyn K. Hurley, Washington, U.S.A.
B*5519 2005010716 AY887663,
AY887664		 Oh-Joong Kwon, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Cw*0111 2004123012 AY887665,
AY887666,
AY887667		 Oh-Joong Kwon, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Cw*0210 19215 AJ011881,
Y18660,
Y18661,
Y18144,
Y18145		 Ella M. Van den Berg-Loonen, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Cw*0319 243379 AJ876752 Tatiana Lebedeva, Dedham, U.S.A.
Cw*0319 MIBe AJ879090 Anne Dormoy, Strasbourg, France
DRB1*1212 B4550 AY899825 Lixing Yan, Hangzhou, China
DRB1*1449 NJ5627 AY912075 Chengya Wang, Nanjing, China
DRB1*1609 NJ7479 AY912074 Chengya Wang, Nanjing, China

Table 2: Confirmatory Sequences


Sequence Cell Identification Accession Number Submitting Author
B*1509 32040 AJ877173 Thibaut Gervais, Brussels, Belgium
B*1589 12964 AJ876903 Robert Collins, London, U.K.
B*2727 NT00526 AY877257,
AY877258		 Carolyn K. Hurley, Washington, U.S.A.
B*5517 NT00530 AY903435,
AY903436		 Carolyn K. Hurley, Washington, U.S.A.
DRB1*110105 MHH-0107122 AJ878425 Peter Horn, Hannover, Germany