Detection of two HLA‐B*27 alleles, B*27:25 and B*27:86, in two Taiwanese blood donors by sequence‐based typing

Summary

We report here two HLA‐B*27 alleles, B*27:86 and B*27:25, found in two Taiwanese blood donors. The new sequence of B*27:86 is identical to B*27:04:01 in exons 2 and 3, except at nucleotide 602 (A→G) in exon 3. The nucleotide change caused an amino acid substitution from E to G at amino acid residue 177. The sequence of B*27:25 is identical to B*27:04:01 in exons 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 except at nucleotides 538, 539, 559 and 560 in exon 4. The nucleotide changes caused amino acid substitutions from L to W and from E to L at residues 156 and 163, respectively. The generation of B*27:86 was probably resulted by a point mutation while the generation of B*27:25 may have been derived from a sequence recombination event between B*46:01:01 and B*27:04:01. The probable HLA‐A, ‐B and ‐DRB1 haplotypes in association with B*27:86 and B*27:25 may be deduced as A*11:53‐B*27:86‐DRB1*12 and A*11:01‐B*27:25‐DRB1*04:05, respectively.