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ArticleHLA2021

HLA-E diversity unfolded: Identification and characterization of 170 novel HLA-E alleles.

Christin Paech, Viviane Albrecht, Kathrin Putke, Gerhard Schöfl, Bianca Schöne, Alexander H Schmidt, Vinzenz Lange, Anja Klussmeier

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Article in HLA, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christin PaechDKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany.
Viviane AlbrechtDKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6304-3989
Kathrin PutkeDKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany.
Gerhard SchöflDKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3000-3205
Bianca SchöneDKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7773-1336
Alexander H SchmidtDKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany.
Vinzenz LangeDKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany.
Anja KlussmeierDKMS Life Science Lab, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2987-7071
Deutsche Knochenmarkspenderdatei · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

HLA-E is a member of the nonclassical HLA class Ib genes. Even though it is structurally highly similar to the classical HLA class Ia genes, it is less diverse and only 45 alleles and 12 proteins were known in December 2019 (IPD-IMGT/HLA, release 3.38.0). Since 2017, we have genotyped over 3 million voluntary stem cell donors for HLA-E by sequencing the most relevant allele-determining bases of exons 2 and 3. As expected, most donors harbor the two predominant alleles HLA-E*01:01 and/or HLA-E*01:03. However, in 1666 (0.05%) of our samples we detected 345 distinct novel HLA-E sequences. The most frequent one was identified in 162 samples and has by now been named HLA-E*01:114. To characterize these novel alleles in full-length, we used both short-read Illumina and long-read PacBio sequencing to obtain fully phased and highly accurate sequences. This resulted in 234 submissions to IPD-IMGT/HLA comprising 170 novel HLA-E alleles, which encode for 93 novel HLA-E proteins, as well as 64 confirmations or sequence extensions. Consequently, the number of HLA-E alleles in the database (release 3.42.0) has now increased to 256 HLA-E alleles and 110 HLA-E proteins.

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High-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHistocompatibility Antigens Class IIAllelesExonsGenotypeHLA AntigensHistocompatibility Antigens Class IIHLA AntigensgenotypingHLA-Enext-generation sequencingnovel allele

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PMID33527770
PMCPMC8247977
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