{"title":"First Identification of the MHC-DPA1 Alleles in Tibetan Macaques (Macaca thibetana)","authors":"S. K. Min, X. S. Zhang, H. Chen","doi":"10.1111/tan.70198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tan.70198","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Ten novel MHC-DPA1 alleles were identified in Tibetan macaques (<i>Macaca thibetana</i>).</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13172,"journal":{"name":"HLA","volume":"105 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144126071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Renato de Marco, Isau H. Noronha, Luiza Zainotti Miguel Fahur Bottino, Tuila Bittencourt Mourão, Gisele Fabianne Rampim, João Campos, Alberto Cardoso Martins Lima, Lúcio Requião-Moura, Hélio Tedesco-Silva, José Medina Pestana, Maria Gerbase-DeLima
{"title":"Association Between HLA-DRB1 Serotype and HLA-DQB1 Allele Mismatches and Acute Rejection in Kidney Transplantation","authors":"Renato de Marco, Isau H. Noronha, Luiza Zainotti Miguel Fahur Bottino, Tuila Bittencourt Mourão, Gisele Fabianne Rampim, João Campos, Alberto Cardoso Martins Lima, Lúcio Requião-Moura, Hélio Tedesco-Silva, José Medina Pestana, Maria Gerbase-DeLima","doi":"10.1111/tan.70228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tan.70228","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The purpose of this single-center case–control study was to investigate the association between HLA serotype mismatch (MM), compared to other HLA MM modalities, and the occurrence of acute rejection (AR) within the first year after deceased donor kidney transplantation. The study included 198 transplants in 99 pairs of recipients of kidneys from the same donor, where one recipient experienced AR and the other survived the first year without AR. Donors and recipients were typed with NGS for 11 HLA loci at high resolution. HLA MM categories included allele groups, alleles, serotypes, amino acids, EMMA, eplet and PIRCHE-II. Additionally, we investigated Cytomegalovirus LIL peptide (CMV LIL) MM. Recipients with AR presented higher frequencies of pre-transplant HLA-ABDR DSA (20.2% vs. 6.1%, <i>p</i> = 0.005) and CMV LIL MM (24.2% vs. 10.1%, <i>p</i> = 0.01). Univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression for matched-pair analyses were used to test the association between HLA MM and AR. Univariate analyses indicated significant association with DRB1 ST, HLA-DQB1 AG, HLA-DQB1 AL, EMMA C, EMMA DQB1, Eplet ABC and Eplet DQ MM. Different models were tested in multivariate analyses, all including pre-transplant HLA-ABDR DSA and CMV LIL MM. The models were compared using the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC). The best estimate for AR prediction (AIC = 97.6) was the model that included pre-transplant HLA-ABDR DSA (HR = 11.97; <i>p</i> = 0.003), CMV LIL MM (HR = 367.2; <i>p</i> < 0.001), HLA-DRB1 serotype MM (9.65; <i>p</i> = 0.002) and HLA-DQB1 allele MM (HR = 3.54; <i>p</i> = 0.033). In conclusion, this original report demonstrates an association between the HLA-DRB1 serotype MM and AR, highlighting that serotypes are clinically relevant.</p>","PeriodicalId":13172,"journal":{"name":"HLA","volume":"105 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/tan.70228","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144108734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaorui Cheng, Hu Mei, Pengji Chen, Haixia Wu, Rui Liu, Yuanyuan Lei, Pingqing Wang
{"title":"ESMpHLA: Evolutionary Scale Model-Based Deep Learning Prediction of HLA Class I Binding Peptides","authors":"Xiaorui Cheng, Hu Mei, Pengji Chen, Haixia Wu, Rui Liu, Yuanyuan Lei, Pingqing Wang","doi":"10.1111/tan.70263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tan.70263","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The recognition of endogenous peptides by HLA class I plays a crucial role in CD8+ T cell immune responses and human adaptive cell immune. Thus, the prediction of HLA class I-peptide binding affinities is always the core issue for the research of immune recognition and vaccine development. In this study, an evolutionary scale model (ESM) combined with parallel CNN blocks and a cross attention mechanism was used to construct a novel ESMpHLA model for predicting HLA class I binding peptides. Based on the 91,560 binding peptides of 41 HLA-A alleles, 56,731 of 50 HLA-B alleles and 2444 of 10 HLA-C alleles, the ESMpHLA model was successfully established and achieved satisfying prediction performances with the overall accuracy and AUC values of 0.874 and 0.938 for the test dataset. The results indicate that the ESMpHLA model performs well in dealing with different HLA class I 2-field alleles as well as the peptides with different lengths. Then, the generalisation ability of the ESMpHLA model was validated by an independent test dataset compiled from recent IEDB weekly benchmark datasets. The results showed that the ESMpHLA model achieved the highest ROC-AUC and PR-AUC values when compared with the latest BVMHC, CapsNet-MHC, STMHCpan and BVLSTM models. In addition, two ensemble models were also established by integrating the above 5 deep learning models using soft-voting and hard-voting strategies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13172,"journal":{"name":"HLA","volume":"105 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144118217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martin Maiers, Valerie Greco-Stewart, Abeer Madbouly, James Robinson, Hans-Peter Eberhard, Jürgen Sauter, Yoram Louzoun, Sapir Israeli, Yung-Tsi Bolon, Julia Pingel, Alexander H. Schmidt, Eric Spierings, Christina Leonhard-Melief, Lydia Foeken, Martine Schuit, Alicia Venter, Steven G. E. Marsh
{"title":"The Registry of Unmet Need: A World Marrow Donor Association Analysis of Patients Without an HLA Match","authors":"Martin Maiers, Valerie Greco-Stewart, Abeer Madbouly, James Robinson, Hans-Peter Eberhard, Jürgen Sauter, Yoram Louzoun, Sapir Israeli, Yung-Tsi Bolon, Julia Pingel, Alexander H. Schmidt, Eric Spierings, Christina Leonhard-Melief, Lydia Foeken, Martine Schuit, Alicia Venter, Steven G. E. Marsh","doi":"10.1111/tan.70255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tan.70255","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While the World Marrow Donor Association global database currently offers approximately 42.7 million potential donors and cord blood units to patients in need of haematopoietic cell transplant, lack of eight HLA-matched donors remains a significant barrier. The Registry of Unmet Need (RUN) Project seeks to address disparities in transplant access for patients with rare HLA genotypes, particularly those from populations that have been historically underrepresented and underserved by global donor registries. Patients eligible for this study searched for an unrelated donor for transplant between 2015 and 2017 and, at that time, lacked a potential eight-of-eight HLA-matched unrelated donor (MUD). Sixteen donor registries contributed data from 3654 patients using standardised data-collection project templates. To address this unmet need, pooled data were analysed to identify trends and inform global recruitment strategies. Patient genotypes were queried against the global inventory at later timepoints in 2018 and 2023 to determine whether potential matches had been recruited within the years since the initial search. Patient haplotypes were imputed using an open-source method referencing US population frequencies. The imputation process used five continental reference populations and 21 detailed populations derived from the NMDP database. The method provided a Bayesian inference of population membership. A control group consisting of US patients that yielded 1000 or more potential matches was used for comparison. RUN patient haplotype and genotype frequencies were substantially lower compared with controls; both the more frequent and less frequent haplotypes in RUN patients were found to be approximately 100 times less common than those in the control group. We identified 782 potential cases in which a potential MUD was recruited after the initial RUN patient search was performed; while this result is being further investigated, clear patterns of where these new matches can be found have emerged; typically, new matches are found outside the country where the patient search was initiated. Our findings demonstrate that rare haplotypes are the primary barrier to identifying a MUD; the presence of rare alleles or haplotype combinations, as with multi-race ancestry, is rarely the cause. Although strategic donor recruitment efforts will help improve MUD access, patient transplants should not be delayed in pursuit of a MUD when viable alternative options are available.</p>","PeriodicalId":13172,"journal":{"name":"HLA","volume":"105 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/tan.70255","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144118216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mar Luis-Hidalgo, Dolores Planelles, José Luis Piñana, Juan Carbonell, Paula Amat, Inés Gómez-Seguí, Manuel Guerreiro, Abelardo Caballero, Alberto Torío, Mª. Jesús Pascual-Cascón, Francisco Boix, Luis Marín Rubio, Lourdes Vázquez, Natalia Martínez-Pomar, Vanesa Cunill, Antonia Sampol, Julio Ochoa, Cristina Arbona, Carlos Solano
{"title":"Frequency and Distribution of KIR Genotypes of Donors-Recipient Pairs in the Haploidentical Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Setting: Collaborative Study by the Spanish Working Group in Histocompatibility and Transplant Immunology (GETHIT) and the Spanish Haematopoietic Transplantation and Cell Therapy Group (GETH-TC)","authors":"Mar Luis-Hidalgo, Dolores Planelles, José Luis Piñana, Juan Carbonell, Paula Amat, Inés Gómez-Seguí, Manuel Guerreiro, Abelardo Caballero, Alberto Torío, Mª. Jesús Pascual-Cascón, Francisco Boix, Luis Marín Rubio, Lourdes Vázquez, Natalia Martínez-Pomar, Vanesa Cunill, Antonia Sampol, Julio Ochoa, Cristina Arbona, Carlos Solano","doi":"10.1111/tan.70248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tan.70248","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>There is limited information regarding the influence of <i>KIR</i> genotype, compared to the HLA system, in haploidentical haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (haplo-HSCT). This study aimed to determine the frequencies of <i>KIR</i> genotypes in Spanish haematologic patients undergoing haplo-HSCT. A study was conducted on 113 oncohaematological patients and their donors, treated across five centres that are members of the Spanish Working Group in Histocompatibility and Transplant Immunology (GETHIT) and the Spanish Haematopoietic Transplantation and Cell Therapy Group (GETH-TC). <i>KIR</i> typing was performed using PCR-rSSO or PCR-SSP. <i>KIR</i> genotypes were identified using the KIR Allele Frequency Net Database. Among donors, the most frequent <i>KIR</i> genotypes were Type 1 (28.3%), Type 2 (12.4%) and Type 4 (10.6%). In patients, Genotypes 1 (23.9%), 4 (23%) and 2 (14.2%) were most prevalent. Donors exhibited AA centromeric (46%) and telomeric (59.3%) types, while patients had a higher AB centromeric frequency (52.2%). Differences were observed in the BB centromeric type (3.5% patients; 16.8% donors, <i>p</i> = 0.002). The AB <i>KIR</i> genotype was the most common (70.8% donors; 75.2% patients). Most were classified as ‘neutral’ (61.9% donors; 73.5% patients). B-content score1 was the most common (48.7% patients; 33.6% donors). Notably, classification as best was rare (2.7% patients; 16.8% donors, <i>p</i> = 0.002). The study highlights the distribution of KIR genotypes in haplo-HSCT patients and donors, with Genotypes 1, 2 and 4 being the most prevalent. AB <i>KIR</i> genotypes and B-content score 1 were dominant. Moreover, <i>KIR</i> genotypes ID may serve as criteria for future investigation about the immunogenetic predisposition to malignant haematological diseases.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13172,"journal":{"name":"HLA","volume":"105 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144100938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Characterisation of the Novel HLA-C*08:272 Allele by Next-Generation Sequencing in a Chinese Donor","authors":"Nanying Chen, Fang Wang, Lina Dong, Wei Zhang, Faming Zhu","doi":"10.1111/tan.70259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tan.70259","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p><i>HLA-C</i>*08:272 differs from <i>HLA-C</i>*08:01:01:01 by one single nucleotide substitution at position 7 G>T in exon 1.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13172,"journal":{"name":"HLA","volume":"105 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144100939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juan López-Pérez, Francisco Javier Gil-Etayo, Ariadna Vicente Parra, Isabel Jiménez Hernaz, Amalia Tejeda Velarde
{"title":"A Missense Substitution in Exon 2 Generates the First HLA-DQB1*04 Allele With Glutamine at Residue 52, DQB1*04:108","authors":"Juan López-Pérez, Francisco Javier Gil-Etayo, Ariadna Vicente Parra, Isabel Jiménez Hernaz, Amalia Tejeda Velarde","doi":"10.1111/tan.70265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tan.70265","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p><i>HLA-DQB1*04:108</i>, the first <i>HLA-DQB1*04</i> allele with Glutamine at residue 52 in the peptide-binding domain.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13172,"journal":{"name":"HLA","volume":"105 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification of the Novel HLA-B*55:141 Allele in a Chinese Individual","authors":"Wenjing Yuan, Fang Wang, Nanying Chen, Wei Zhang, Faming Zhu","doi":"10.1111/tan.70246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tan.70246","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p><i>HLA-B*55:141</i> differs from <i>HLA-B*55:08</i> by a single nucleotide substitution at position 363 G>C in exon 3.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13172,"journal":{"name":"HLA","volume":"105 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144091673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification of the Novel HLA-DQB1*04:95 Allele Using Next-Generation Sequencing in a Chinese Cord Blood Donor","authors":"Nanying Chen, Lina Dong, Fang Wang, Wei Zhang, Faming Zhu","doi":"10.1111/tan.70260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tan.70260","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p><i>HLA-DQB1</i>*04:95 shows one single-nucleotide substitution at position 431 A>G in Exon 3 compared with <i>HLA-DQB1</i>*04:01:01:01.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13172,"journal":{"name":"HLA","volume":"105 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144085282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification of the Novel MICA*002:01:30 Allele in a Haematopoietic Stem Cell Donor From India","authors":"Gaurav Sharma, Disha Agarwal, Alka Khadwal, Pankaj Malhotra","doi":"10.1111/tan.70237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/tan.70237","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>MICA*002:01:30 differs from MICA*002:01:03 by a transition of C > T at position 3678 in intron 1.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":13172,"journal":{"name":"HLA","volume":"105 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144085281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}