Overview
- Editors:
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Stephen H. Powis
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Centre for Nephrology Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, London, UK
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Robert W. Vaughan
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South Thames Tissue Typing, Division of Medicine, Guy’s Campus, King’s College, London, UK
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Table of contents (17 protocols)
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Databases
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- James Robinson, Steven G. E. Marsh
Pages 3-21
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- Roger Horton, Stephan Beck
Pages 23-42
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Polymorphism in Classical and Nonclassical Hla Genes
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- Derek Middleton, F. Williams
Pages 67-112
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- Lori L. Steiner, Priscilla V. Moonsamy, Teodorica L. Bugawan, Ann B. Begovich
Pages 113-142
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- J. Rafael, Martha Pérez-Rodríguez, Andrea Pay, Gaby Fisher, Alasdair McWhinnie, J. Alejandro Madrigal
Pages 173-189
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- Paul P. J. Dunn, Steven T. Cox, Ann-Margaret Little
Pages 191-222
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- Jorge Martinez-Laso, Eduardo Gomez-Casado, Antonio Arnaiz-Villena
Pages 223-236
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Polymorphism in Non-Hla Mhc Genes
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Front Matter
Pages 247-247
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- Zeng-Bian Zhu, John E. Volanakis
Pages 259-268
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- Peter M. Schneider, Gottfried Mauff
Pages 269-295
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- R. W. M. Collins, Henry A. F. Stephens, Robert W. Vaughan
Pages 305-321
About this book
The aim of MHC Protocols is to document protocols that can be used for the analysis of genetic variation within the human major histocompatibility complex (MHC; HLA region). The human MHC encompasses approximately 4 million base pairs on the short arm of chromosome 6 at cytogenetic location 6p21. 3. The region is divided into three subregions. The telomeric class I region contains the genes that encode the HLA class I molecules HLA-A, -B, and -C. The centromeric class II region contains the genes encoding the HLA class II molecules HLA-DR, -DQ, and -DP. In between is the class III region, originally identified because it contains genes encoding components of the complement pathway. The entire human MHC has recently been sequenced (1) and each subregion is now known to contain many other genes, a number of which have immunological functions. The study of polymorphism within the MHC is well established, because the region contains the highly polymorphic HLA genes. HLA polymorphism has been used extensively in solid organ and bone marrow transplantation to match donors and recipients. As a result, large numbers of HLA alleles have been identified, a process that has been further driven by recent interest in HLA gene diversity in ethnic populations. The extreme genetic variation in HLA genes is believed to have been driven by the evolutionary response to infectious agents, but relatively few studies have analyzed associations between HLA genetic variation and infectious disease, which has been difficult to demonstrate.
Editors and Affiliations
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Centre for Nephrology Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, London, UK
Stephen H. Powis
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South Thames Tissue Typing, Division of Medicine, Guy’s Campus, King’s College, London, UK
Robert W. Vaughan
