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Extensive haplotype diversity in African American mothers and their cord blood units.

ABSTRACT: HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1, -DQB1 assignments were obtained for 374 pairs of African American mothers and their umbilical cord blood units (CBU) by DNA sequencing. An algorithm developed by the National Marrow Donor Program was used to assign 1122 haplotypes by segregation. Seventy percent of the haplotypes carried assignments at all five loci. In the remainder, alleles at various loci, most often DQB1 in 48% of the haplotypes with a missing assignment, could not be assigned due to sharing of both alleles by mother and CBU. There were 652 haplotypes carrying a unique combination of alleles at the five loci; the majority (74%) were singletons. Novel B?C and DRB1~DQB1 associations were observed. The results show the genetic diversity in this population and provide validation for a publically available tool for pedigree analysis. Our observations underscore the need for procurement of increased numbers of units in the national cord blood inventory in order to identify matching donors for all patients requiring hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

SUBMITTER: Tu B

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3612350 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Extensive haplotype diversity in African American mothers and their cord blood units.

Tu B B Leahy N N Yang R R Cha N N Kariyawasam K K Hou L L Xiao Y Y Masaberg C C Pulse-Earle D D Maiers M M Ng J J Kurtzberg J J Hurley C K CK

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HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1, -DQB1 assignments were obtained for 374 pairs of African American mothers and their umbilical cord blood units (CBU) by DNA sequencing. An algorithm developed by the National Marrow Donor Program was used to assign 1122 haplotypes by segregation. Seventy percent of the haplotypes carried assignments at all five loci. In the remainder, alleles at various loci, most often DQB1 in 48% of the haplotypes with a missing assignment, could not be assigned due to sharing of both all ...[more]

PMID: 23163897

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Project description:The frequencies and diversities of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles and haplotypes are representative of ethnicities. Matching HLA alleles is essential for many clinical applications, including blood transfusion, stem cell transplantation, and tissue/organ transplantation. To date, the information about the frequencies and distributions of HLA alleles and haplotypes among the Kinh Vietnamese population is limited because of the small sample size. In this study, more than 3,750 cord blood units from individuals belonging to the Kinh Vietnamese population were genotyped using PCR sequence-specific oligonucleotide (PCR-SSO) for HLA testing. The results of the study demonstrated that the most frequently occurring HLA-A, -B, -C, and -DRB1 alleles were A*11:01 (25%), A*24:02 (12.3%), A*02:01 (11.2); A*03:03 (8.95%), A*02:03 (7.81%), A*29:01 (7.03%); B*15:02 (15.1%), B*46:01 (10.7%), B*58:01 (7.65%), B*38:02 (7.29%); C*08:01 (17.2), C*07:02 (16.2%), C*01:02 (15.2), C*03:02 (8.3%), C*15:05 (6.13); DRB1*12:02 (31.0%), DRB1*09:01 (10.47%), DRB1*15:02 (7.54%); DRB1*07:01 (6.68%), DRB1*10:01 (6.63%), respectively, with the highest allele diversity level observed in locus B (93 alleles). The most frequent haplotypes of two-locus combinations of HLA-A-B, HLA-A-C, HLA-A-DRB1, HLA-B-C, HLA-B-DRB1, and HLA-C-DRB1 haplotypes were A*11:01-B*15:02 (7.63%), A*11:01-C*08:01 (7.98%), A*11:01-DRB1*12:02 (10.56%), B*15:02-C*08:01 (14.0%), B*15:02-DRB1*12:02 (10.47%), and C*08:01-DRB1*12:02 (11.38%), respectively. In addition, the most frequent haplotypes of three- and four-locus sets of HLA-A-B-C, HLA-A-B-DRB1, HLA-A-C-DRB1, HLA-B-C-DRB1, and HLA-A-B-C-DRB1 were A*11:01-B*15:02-C*08:01 (7.57%), A*11:01-B*15:02-DRB1*12:02 (5.39%), A*11:01-C*08:01-DRB1*12:02 (5.54%), B*15:02-C*08:01-DRB1*12:02 (10.21%), and A*11:01-B*15:02-C*08:01-DRB1*12:02 (5.45%), respectively. This study provides critical information on the frequencies and distributions of HLA alleles and haplotypes in the Kinh Vietnamese population, accounting for more than 85% of Vietnamese citizens. It paves the way to establish an umbilical cord blood bank for cord blood transplantation programs in Vietnam.

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Extensive haplotype diversity in African American mothers and their cord blood units.

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Extensive haplotype diversity in African American mothers and their cord blood units.

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