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Identification of a novel DR4 allele, DRB1*0442
T A Dunn1, B A Iglehart, M S Leffell
1Department of Medicine, Institute of Genetic Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Tissue Antigens
|November 13, 2001
Abstract:
A new DRB1 allele encoding DR4, DRB1*0442, was identified in three Caucasian siblings by reverse in-line hybridization and defined by sequencing based typing. The DRB1*0442 allele differs from DRB1*0404 by a single nucleotide at position 227 (T-->A) of codon 47 in exon 2. At the amino acid level, this substitution results in a change from tyrosine to phenylalanine. Serologically, the new allele appears to retain the DR4 antigenicity; however, this substitution may affect peptide-binding specificity.