Sequence-based typing characterization of the novel HLA-Cw*1609 allele in the Moroccan Chaouya group
A Canossi1, G Liberatore, T Del Beato
1CNR Institute Organ Transplants and Immunocitology, L'Aquila, Italy. a.canossi@itoi.cnr.it
Tissue Antigens
|March 29, 2007
Abstract:
The novel human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-Cw*1609 allele was identified by sequence-based typing in a Moroccan Chaouya donor. It differs from the closest Cw*1602 by only one nucleotide (C --> G) at position 244 in exon 2 (Glu to Gln at codon 58 in alpha1 domain).


