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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Fast and accurate HLA typing from short-read next-generation sequence data with xHLA.

Chao Xie, Zhen Xuan Yeo, Marie Wong, Jason Piper, Tao Long, Ewen F Kirkness, William H Biggs, Ken Bloom, Stephen Spellman, Cynthia Vierra-Green and 7 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 91 papers.

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17 authors.

Chao XieHuman Longevity Singapore Pte Ltd., Singapore 138543; jcventer@humanlongevity.com xchao@humanlongevity.com.
Zhen Xuan YeoHuman Longevity Singapore Pte Ltd., Singapore 138543.
Marie WongHuman Longevity Singapore Pte Ltd., Singapore 138543.
Jason PiperHuman Longevity Singapore Pte Ltd., Singapore 138543.
Tao LongHuman Longevity, Inc., San Diego, CA 92121.
Ewen F KirknessHuman Longevity, Inc., San Diego, CA 92121.
William H BiggsHuman Longevity, Inc., San Diego, CA 92121.
Ken BloomHuman Longevity, Inc., San Diego, CA 92121.
Stephen SpellmanCenter for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN 55401.
Cynthia Vierra-GreenCenter for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN 55401.
Colleen BradyCenter for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, Minneapolis, MN 55401.
Richard H ScheuermannJ. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037.
Amalio TelentiHuman Longevity, Inc., San Diego, CA 92121.ORCID 0000-0001-6290-7677
Sally HowardHuman Longevity, Inc., San Diego, CA 92121.
Suzanne BrewertonHuman Longevity Singapore Pte Ltd., Singapore 138543.
Yaron TurpazHuman Longevity Singapore Pte Ltd., Singapore 138543.
J Craig VenterHuman Longevity, Inc., San Diego, CA 92121; jcventer@humanlongevity.com xchao@humanlongevity.com.

Funding

Data Resource for Analyzing Blood &Marrow TransplantsU24CA076518 · NCI · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN · PI Amy M Moskop, Bronwen Shaw · 1998 to 2026
$105.2M
Easy-to-read Informed Consent for HCT Clinical TrialsU10HL069294 · NHLBI · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN · PI HOROWITZ, MARY MARESCA · 2011 to 2016
$43.8M
NCI NIH HHS U24 CA076518NHLBI NIH HHS U10 HL069294
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The HLA gene complex on human chromosome 6 is one of the most polymorphic regions in the human genome and contributes in large part to the diversity of the immune system. Accurate typing of HLA genes with short-read sequencing data has historically been difficult due to the sequence similarity between the polymorphic alleles. Here, we introduce an algorithm, xHLA, that iteratively refines the mapping results at the amino acid level to achieve 99-100% four-digit typing accuracy for both class I and II HLA genes, taking only [Formula: see text]3 min to process a 30× whole-genome BAM file on a desktop computer.

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AlgorithmsBenchmarkingHistocompatibility TestingHumansautoimmune diseasesMHCtransplantation

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PMID28674023
PMCPMC5544337

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