COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Annual Progress Conference Action BM0803 A European network of the HLA diversity for histocompatibility, clinical transplantation, epidemiology and population genetics 3-4 June 2013, Riga Action Chair: Prof. Alicia Sanchez-Mazas Rapporteur: Prof. Aleksandar Dimovski Science Officer: Dr. Ilias Papadopoulos Start date: 29/01/2009 / End date: 28/01/2013 COST Domain - Biomedicine and Molecular Biosciences (BMBS)
scientific areas related to HLA molecular diversity Peptide APC Lymphocyte T Number of HLA alleles (January 2013) 158 36 179 49 1,196 2,798 1,672 2,132 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 DPB1 DPA1 DQB1 DQA1 DRB1 B C A Transplantation Donor Recipient Population genetics Disease-associations HIV Malaria 3
Europe Maps of 25 to 45 pan-European populations (3’338 to 9’044 individuals) Sanchez-Mazas et al. (in prep.) DRB1*07:01 DRB1*15:01 DQB1*02:01 DQA1*02:01 DRB1*11:01 DRB1*11:04 B*18:01 A*24:02 DQA1*05:01 DQB1*03:01 8 Final publication in preparation
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