HLA-B42




major histocompatibility complex (human), class I, B42
Alleles	B4201 B4202
Structure (See HLA-B)
Symbol(s)	HLA-B
EBI-HLA	B*4201
EBI-HLA	B*4202
Locus	chr.6 6p21.31

HLA-B42 (B42) is an HLA-B serotype. The serotype identifies the HLA-B*4201 and *4202 gene products.^[1] HLA-B*4201 is common in Central Africa. (For terminology help see: HLA-serotype tutorial)

[1]

B*42	B42	other	Sample
allele	%	%	size (N)
4201	93	2	1015
4202	95		80

		freq
ref.	Population	(%)
^[3]	Zambia Lusaka	14.8
^[3]	Mali Bandiagara	13.8
^[3]	Burkina Faso Mossi	13.2
^[3]	South African Natal Zulu	12.0
^[3]	Burkina Faso Rimaibe	9.6
^[3]	South Africa Tswana	8.5
^[3]	Kenya Luo	7.7
^[3]	Kenya	7.3
^[3]	Kenya Nandi	6.9
^[3]	Zimbabwe Harare Shona	6.9
^[3]	Saudi Arabia	5.6
^[3]	Cameroon Yaounde	4.9
^[3]	Cameroon Beti	4.0
^[3]	Cameroon Bamileke	3.9
^[3]	Cameroon Sawa	3.8
^[3]	Ivory Coast Akan Adiopodoume	3.4
^[3]	Israel Gaza Palestinians	2.4
^[3]	India North Delhi	2.2
^[3]	Senegal Niokholo Mandenka	1.6
^[3]	Mbenzele Pygmy (C. Afr. Rep.)	1.5
^[3]	Iran Baloch	1.5
^[3]	Pakistan Baloch	1.5
^[3]	Sudanese	1.5
^[3]	Tunisia	1.5
^[3]	Pakistan Brahui	1.4
^[3]	Cameroon Bamileke	1.3
^[3]	Oman	1.3
^[3]	Sudanese	1.3
^[3]	Tunisia Tunis	1.1
^[3]	Zimbabwe Harare Shona	1.1
^[3]	Cameroon Bakola Pygmy	1.0
^[3]	Pakistan Pathan	1.0
^[3]	Portugal Centre	1.0
^[3]	Saudi Arabia Guraiat and Hail	1.0
^[3]	Morocco Casablanca	0.9
^[3]	Senegal Dakar	0.9
^[3]	Uganda Kampala	0.9
^[3]	Cape Verde Southeastern Islands	0.8
^[3]	Guinea Bissau	0.8
^[3]	United Arab Emerates	0.8
^[3]	Morocco Nador Metalsa Class I	0.7
^[3]	Pakistan Karachi Parsi	0.6
^[3]	Spain Majorca	0.6
^[3]	China Yunnan Han pop2	0.5
^[3]	England Newcastle	0.5
^[3]	Israel Arab Druse	0.5
^[3]	Israel Jews	0.5
^[3]	Italy Rome	0.5
^[3]	Guadalajara Mestizos (2) (Mexico)	0.5
^[3]	Morocco	0.5
^[3]	Pakistan Sindhi	0.5
^[3]	Senegal Niokholo Mandenka	0.5
^[3]	Singapore Riau Malay	0.5

HLA-B42

B*4201 allele frequencies

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