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A new HLA-A9 subtype lacking the Bw4 epitope. Ancestral or revertant allele?
Human immunology - 1 Mar 1995
Kashiwase K, Tokunaga K, Ishikawa Y, Lin L, Imanishi T, Akaza T, Tadokoro K, Juji T
Abstract excerpt
The HLA-A9 group has been subdivided into three serologically defined splits, A23, A24, and A2403. We have found a new HLA-A9 split antigen, tentatively called A24AK, in the Japanese population. Sequence analysis of A24AK (officially assigned A*2404) showed that this new allele was different from HLA-A*2402, which codes for the common A24 antigen, by seven nucleotides, and the two alleles could be discriminated...
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