C. Pera et al., Novel associations among HLA-DQA1 and-DQB1 alleles, revealed by high-resolution sequence-based typing (SBT), TISSUE ANTI, 55(3), 2000, pp. 275-279
Althought it is a valuable tool for the identification of HLA alleles, sequ
ence-based typing (SBT) presents difficulties when used to determine HLA-DQ
A1 and -DQB1 alleles Specifically, some HLA-DQA1 alleles have a three-base
deletion at codon 56 of exon 2 that interferes with the sequencing read. Mo
reover, the frequently used primers for HLA-DQB1 may co-amplify the HLA-DQB
2 pseudogene. To overcome these problems, we amplified DQA1 exon 2 using fi
ve group-specific polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) which allowed separatio
n of deleted from non-deleted DQA1 alleles DQB1 exon 2 was amplified using
two group-specific amplifications. To increase typing resolution, we also a
nalyzed DQA1 exons 1, 3 and 4 and DQB1 exon 3 by PCR using sequence-specifi
c primers (PCR-SSP) or SET analysis. Using this method we found some import
ant associations between DQA1 and DQB1 alleles: DQA1*05011 and DQB1*0201, D
QA1*0505 and DQB1*03011, DQA1*01021 and DQB1*06, DQA1*01022 and DQB1*0502.