Characterisation of the Novel HLA-DQB1*05:354 Allele by Sequencing-Based Typing
Thibault Pajot1, Vincent Elsermans1, Isabelle Top1
1CHU de Lille, Institut d'Immunologie-HLA, Lille, France.
HLA
|February 6, 2025
Abstract:
HLA-DQB1*05:354 differs from HLA-DQB1*05:01:01:01 by one nucleotide substitution in codon 55 in exon 2.
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