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Detection of the rare HLA-B*40:97 allele in an unrelated Taiwanese bone marrow donor.
International journal of immunogenetics - 1 Dec 2012
Yang K L, Lee S K, Kao R H, Lin C L, Lin P Y
Abstract excerpt
We detected a rare HLA-B locus allele, B*40:97, in a Taiwanese unrelated donor in our routine HLA SBT (sequence-based typing) exercise for a possible hematopoietic stem cell donation. In exons 2, 3 and 4, the sequence of B*40:97 is identical to the sequence of B*40:02:01 except one nucleotide at nucleotide position 760 (C->T) in exon 4. The nucleotide variation caused one amino acid alteration at residue 230...
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