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Identification of the new HLA-A*31:48 allele in an Italian patient.
Tissue antigens - 1 Oct 2011
Testi M, Battarra M, Troiano M, Condello R, Andreani M
Abstract excerpt
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I sequence-based typing (SBT) for hematopoietic unrelated donor searching in an Italian Caucasian patient showed the presence of a novel HLA-A allele defined as A*31:48. HLA-A*31:48 has one nucleotide change from A*31:01:02 at nt 727 from C to T, resulting in an amino acid change at codon 219 of exon 4 from Arg to Trp.
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