The WHO Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System met following the 14th
International HLA and Immunogenetics Workshop in Melbourne, Australia in December 2005 …

Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation involves consideration of both donor and recipient
characteristics to guide the selection of a suitable graft. Sufficient high-resolution donor–…

… The original version of this Article contained a typographical error in the spelling of the author
Marcelo Fernandez-Vina, which was incorrectly given as Marcelo Fernadez-Vina. This has …

The relative importance of various human leukocyte antigen (HLA) loci and the resolution
level at which they are matched has not been fully defined for unrelated donor transplantation. …

Outcome of unrelated donor marrow transplantation is influenced by donor-recipient
matching for HLA. Prior studies assessing the effects of mismatches at specific HLA loci have …

The HLA system is the most polymorphic of all human genetic systems. The frequency of
HLA class I alleles and their linkage disequilibrium patterns differ significantly among human …

… Carl Grumet,2 Marcelo Fernandez-Vina,10 Makoto Honda,6 … ) control subjects were
mostly provided by M. n p 146 S. … Laboratory in Baltimore (Fernandez-Vina et al. 1991). …

… We thank M. Illangesekare for sequencing during the initial selections and 1. Majerfeld for
discus… We thank M. Biavati for technical assistance, C. Campbell forsecretarial assistance, D. …

In histocompatibility testing some genotype ambiguities are almost always resolved into the
genotype with the most common alleles. To achieve unambiguous assignments additional …

There are >24 million registered adult donors, and the numbers of unrelated donor
transplantations are increasing. The optimal strategy for prioritizing among comparably HLA-matched …