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Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system.

Margareth Torres, +1 more
- 01 Jun 2011 - 
- Vol. 9, Iss: 2, pp 249-251
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A Nomenclature Committee composed of geneticists and immunologists, including specialists in tissue typing, has met after each of the Histocompatibility Workshops beginning with the Third Workshop in 1967 and met after the Sixth Workshop in Aarhus in July 1975.
Abstract
The Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System of the World Health Organization standardizes the nomenclature of the HLA system and meets regularly during the International Histocompatibility Workshops. During the 15th International Histocompatibility Workshop in Buzios (RJ), Brazil, in September 2008, there was a meeting of the nomenclature committee when new rules were established, which were implemented in April 2010.

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Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system

TL;DR: The following sequences have been submitted to the NomenClature Committee since the May 2002 nomenclature update and, following agreed policy, have been assigned of-cial allele designations.
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Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, 1995.

TL;DR: In some cases errors are suspected on the basis that they contain unexpected substitutions in normally conserved regions, but no material of the original sample is available for resequencing, and the names A*2401 and B*0701 have been deleted.
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Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, 2002

TL;DR: The IMGT/HLA Sequence Database contains sequences for all HLA alleles officially recognized by the WHO Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System and, provides users with online tools and facilities for their retrieval and analysis.