Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, update July, August and September 2019

Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, update October, November and December 2019

“…The following sequences have been submitted to the Nomenclature Committee since the July, August and September 2019 nomenclature update and, following agreed policy, have been assigned official allele designations . Full details of all sequences will be published in a forthcoming report.…”

Full‐length sequence of a novel allele, HLA‐B*40:01:45, identified in a patient with hepatitis B infection

“…The full length genomic sequence of HLA‐B*40:01:45 from exon 1 through to 7 has been submitted to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Nucleotide Sequence Database and assigned the accession number MF946654 . This follows the agreed policy that subject to the conditions stated in the most recent Nomenclature Report, 3 names will be assigned to new sequences as they are identified. Lists of such new names will be published in the next WHO Nomenclature Report.…”

Identification of the novel HLA‐C*06:297 allele by next generation sequencing

“…The name C*06:297 was officially assigned by the World Health Organization (WHO) Nomenclature Committee in April 2020. This follows the agreed policy that, subject to the conditions stated in the most recent Nomenclature Report, names will be assigned to new sequences as they are identified 6 …”