HLA-B55

Human leukocyte antigen serotype From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

HLA-B55 (B55) is an HLA-B serotype. B55 is a split antigen from the B22 broad antigen, sister serotypes are B54 and B56. The serotype identifies the more common HLA-B*55 gene products.[1] (For terminology help see: HLA-serotype tutorial)

major histocompatibility complex (human), class I, B55
Alleles B*5501, B*5502
Structure (See HLA-B)
Symbol(s) HLA-B
EBI-HLA B*5501
B*5502
Locus chr.6 6p21.31

Serotype

B*55:03 is one of the four B alleles that reacts with neither Bw4 nor Bw6. The others are B*18:06, B*46:01, and B*73:01.[2]

B55 and B22 serotype recognition of some HLA B*55 allele-group gene products[3]
B*55B55 B22Sample
allele%%size (N)
5501925453
5502842309

Allele distribution

HLA B*5501 frequencies
freq
ref.Population(%)
[4]India New Delhi3.8
[4]Singapore Chinese Han3.5
[4]Spain Eastern Andalusia Gipsy3.5
[4]Georgia Tbilisi Kurds3.4
[4]India North Delhi3.3
[4]France South East3.1
[4]Israel Arab Druse3.0
[4]India North Hindus2.9
[4]Georgia Tbilisi Georgians2.8
[4]Russia Tuva (2)2.8
[4]Georgia Svaneti Svans2.5
[4]Iran Baloch2.5
[4]Singapore Thai2.5
[4]Sudanese2.5
[4]Mexico Mestizos2.4
[4]Spain Eastern Andalusia2.4
[4]Ireland South2.0
[4]Azores Central Islands1.8
[4]Bulgaria1.8
[4]Israel Ashkenazi and Non Ashkenazi Jews1.8
[4]Oman1.7
[4]Tunisia Tunis1.7
[4]India Andhra Pradesh Golla1.4
[4]China Tibet1.3
[4]Uganda Kampala1.2
[4]Finland1.1
[4]Portugal North1.1
[4]Portugal Centre1.0
[4]Singapore Riau Malay1.0
[4]B*5502
[4]Taiwan Taroko14.5
[4]American Samoa12.0
[4]China Guangxi Maonan6.0
[4]Japan Ainu Hokkaido5.0
[4]China Tibet Autonomous Region Tibetans4.7
[4]Singapore Chinese3.0
[4]China Beijing Shijiazhuang Tianjian Han2.9
[4]China North Han2.9
[4]South Korea (3)2.7
[4]Hong Kong Chinese2.2
[4]Japan (5)2.2
[4]Taiwan Ami2.0
[4]Thailand (3)2.0
[4]New Caledonia1.0
[4]Philippines Ivatan1.0

References

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