Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: The WHO Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System met in Victoria, Canada in May 2002 after the 13 th International Histocompatibility Workshop to consider additions and revisions to the nomenclature of HLA specificities following the principles established in previous reports (1-16).The main subjects discussed were: 1. Naming of additional genes within the HLA region.2. Naming of additional alleles.3. Renaming of alleles and removal of incorrect alleles.4. Extension of HLA allele names.5. Naming of alleles with aberrant expression.6. Naming of HLA-G isoforms.7. Killer Immunoglobulin-like Receptor (KIR) gene and allele nomenclature.8. The IMGT/HLA Sequence Database.9. New committee members. Naming of additional genes within the HLA regionA number of class I and II gene fragments within the HLA region have been previously described but had yet to been named.Official designations were given to these gene fragments.Three class I gene fragments, previously called HLA-30 (17), HLA-17 (17) and HLA-X
Source: Tissue Antigens
Authors: E.D. Albert, W.F. Bodmer, R.E. Bontrop, Bo Dupont, H.A. Erlich, D.E. Geraghty, J.A. Hansen, B. Mach, W.R. Mayr, P. Parham, E.W. Petersdorf, T. Sasazuki, G.M.Th. Schreuder, J.L. Strominger, A. Svejgaard, P.I. Terasaki
Language: English
Subfield: Transplantation
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3083939651