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Characterization of a new HLA-B39 allele, B*3913, in a Brazilian Caucasian.
Tissue antigens - 1 Dec 1998
Maertens R, De Canck I, Moraes M E, Vande Casteele N, Van Reybroeck G, Vanderborght B, Moraes J R, Rossau R
Abstract excerpt
A panel of samples, previously typed by serology, was retyped using a line probe assay. One sample from a Brazilian Caucasian individual was serologically typed as B52/B39, but showed an aberrant HLA-B pattern on the diagnostic strip and was typed as B*52012/B*39new. Further analysis by allele-specific amplification and subsequent sequencing of exons 2 and 3 revealed a G(B*3908)-to-T nucleotide substitution at...
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