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

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following agreed policy, have been assigned official allele designations [2]. Full details of all sequences will be published in a forthcoming report.Below are listed the newly assigned sequences (Table 1) and confirmations of previously reported sequences (Table 2). The accession number of each sequence is given and these can be used to retrieve the sequence files from the EMBL, GenBank or DDBJ data libraries. Although accession numbers have been assigned by the data-libraries and most sequences are already available, there is still the possibility that an author may not yet have allowed the sequence to be released; in such a case you will have to contact the submitting author directly. Additional information pertaining to new sequences is often included in the publications describing these alleles; a listing of recent publications that describe new HLA sequences is given in Table 3.

Identification of the novel HLA‐B*51:367 allele in a cord blood donor by next‐generation sequencing

“…This follows the agreed policy that, subject to the conditions stated in the most recent Nomenclature Report, names will be assigned to new sequences as they are identified. List of such new names will be published in the following WHO Nomenclature Report 5,6 …”

Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, update October, November and December 2020

“…The following sequences have been submitted to the Nomenclature Committee since the July, August and September 2020 nomenclature update 1 and, following agreed policy, have been assigned official allele designations 2 . Full details of all sequences will be published in a forthcoming report.…”

Characterization of the novel HLA‐DPA1 allele, HLA‐DPA1*01:86

“…The name DPA1*01:86 has been officially assigned by the World Health Organization (WHO) Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System in August 2021. This follows the agreed policy that, subject to the conditions stated in the most recent Nomenclature Report, names will be assigned to new sequences as they are identified 6 …”