Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, update April, May and June 2020

Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, update July, August and September 2020*

“…The following sequences have been submitted to the Nomenclature Committee since the April, May and June 2020 nomenclature update (Marsh, 2020) and, following agreed policy, have been assigned official allele designations (Marsh et al., 2010). Full details of all sequences will be published in a forthcoming report.…”

The novel HLA‐A*02:941 allele was identified during high‐resolution HLA typing

“…HLA is well known as a highly polymorphism genetic system. Currently, more than 6000 HLA‐A alleles have been identified according to the latest version of IPD‐IMGT/HLA Database (release 3.41, 2020‐07) 1,2 . We detected the HLA‐A*02:941 allele in a Russian individual in our routine HLA typing practice using a next‐generation sequencing (NGS).…”

Detection of the HLA‐B*51:322 allele in a Russian individual

“…The number of new HLA alleles within the IPD‐IMGT/HLA Database (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/imgt/hla) 1,2 continues to grow, mainly due to the introduction of next‐generation sequencing (NGS) in HLA typing laboratories. In this report, we describe a new HLA allele identified using NGS technology, HLA‐B*51:322 .…”