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Identification of a new HLA-B*39 allele: HLA-B*3924.
Tissue antigens - 1 Aug 2000
Cook J T, Day S, Dunn P P, Welsh K I, Bunce M
Abstract excerpt
We have identified a new HLA-B*39 allele through polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using sequence-specific primers (SSP) and sequence-based typing of exons 2 and 3. This novel allele was identified in three HLA-identical siblings of Turkish origin. This allele only differs from HLA-B*3903 at a unique single nucleotide substitution (T for C) at position 365 in exon 3 which results in an amino acid change in codon 98...
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