Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, update July, August and September 2021

Abstract

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.

The novel HLA‐A allele, HLA‐A*03:478, identified in a Korean individual

“…The nucleotide sequence of HLA‐A*03:478 is available in the GenBank and IPD‐IMGT/HLA databases under the accession number OR639939 and HWS10068109, respectively. The sequence was officially named as HLA‐A*03:478 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Nomenclature Committee Factors of the HLA System in November 2023 5,6 …”