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Emerging new alleles suggest high diversity of HLA-C locus.
Tissue antigens - 1 Jan 2005
Lebedeva T V, Ohashi M, Huang A, Vasconcellos S, Flesch S, Yu N
Abstract excerpt
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-C has only recently emerged as an important transplantation antigen and as a receptor for natural killer cells. Over the last few years, sequence-based typing (SBT) revealed the true diversity of HLA-C locus; however, the frequency at which new alleles are detected still remains high. During routine SBT of 3500 samples for the National Marrow Donor Program, we have identified 20 new...
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