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Common and well-documented HLA alleles of German stem cell donors by haplotype frequency estimation.

Hans-Peter Eberhard, Alexander H Schmidt, Joannis Mytilineos, Katharina Fleischhauer, Carlheinz R Müller

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Article in HLA, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Hans-Peter EberhardZKRD Zentrales Knochenmarkspender-Register für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Ulm, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2731-4486
Alexander H SchmidtDKMS, Tübingen, Germany.
Joannis MytilineosSKD Stiftung Knochenmark- und Stammzellspende Deutschland, Birkenfeld, Germany.
Katharina FleischhauerInstitute for Experimental Cellular Therapy, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany.
Carlheinz R MüllerZKRD Zentrales Knochenmarkspender-Register für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Ulm, Germany.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Information und Wissen · DEDeutsche Knochenmarkspenderdatei · DEEssen University Hospital · DEGerman National Bone Marrow Donor Registry · DEGerman Red Cross · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a catalog of common and well-documented (CWD) alleles of the German population for the six HLA loci A, B, C, DRB1, DQB1, and DPB1. This study is based on a sample of over 5 million volunteer adult hematopoietic stem cell donors from the 26 German donor centers. To establish the catalog, allele and haplotype frequencies were estimated with a validated implementation of the expectation-maximization algorithm. CWD criteria similar to existing CWD catalogs were applied in order to be able to put our findings into the context of relevant existing references. Overall, 2155 HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1, -DQB1, and -DPB1 alleles were identified as CWD in the German donor population representing about 20% of the HLA alleles at two-field resolution in the IPD-IMGT/HLA Database release v3.25.0 from July 2016 for these six loci. We found a substantial concordance of CWD alleles between the three catalogs and showed the contribution of the German donor population to the CWD alleles domain. In conclusion, the definition of CWD criteria that allow interoperability, scalability, and flexibility will be crucial for the development of a worldwide CWD catalog.

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HaplotypesTissue DonorsAllelesCells, CulturedGene FrequencyGenetics, PopulationGenotypeGermanyHLA-A AntigensHLA-B AntigensHLA-C AntigensHLA-DQ beta-ChainsHLA-DRB1 ChainsHumansStem CellsHLA-A AntigensHLA-B AntigensHLA-C AntigensHLA-DQ beta-ChainsHLA-DRB1 Chainsallele frequencycommon and well-documented allele cataloghaplotype frequency estimationhematopoietic stem cell donorHLA

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PMID30117303
PMCPMC6175154
OpenAlexW2886300061

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