High-throughput genotyping of HLA-G, HLA-F, MICA, and MICB and analysis of frequency distributions in healthy blood donors from Catalonia
HLA(2021)
摘要
Similarly to HLA class I molecules, certain non-classical HLA class I genes and MHC class I polypeptide-related sequences A and B (MICA and MICB) act as ligands for KIR and NKG2D natural killer receptors. Although these genes are less polymorphic than HLA class I, few studies have analyzed their association with diseases. Information on allele frequencies in healthy donors is needed to map their distribution worldwide. This study is the first to analyze high-resolution HLA-G, HLA-F, MICA, and MICB allele frequencies using a novel high-throughput next generation-sequencing method. We analyzed DNA samples from 96 unrelated blood donors resident in Catalonia, Spain, and registered in the Barcelona Blood and Tissue Bank. Using the first two fields of the HLA nomenclature, we detected six HLA-G and two HLA-F alleles. The most frequent alleles were HLA-G*01:01 (77.08%) and HLA-F*01:01(84.90%). When the four fields were analyzed, we detected 16 and 10 alleles, respectively. Nineteen alleles were detected for MICA and 10 for MICB. The most frequent alleles in these cases were MICA*008:01 (16.15%) and MICB*005:02 (46.84%). All frequencies were in Hardy Weinberg equilibrium except MICA. We also estimated maximum-likelihood haplotype frequencies and calculated corresponding linkage disequilibrium (LD) values and found that few allele pairs were in disequilibrium. Strong LD between MICA and HLA-B (using data from a previous study) was observed. Our findings will be useful for guiding further research evaluating the functional role of these genes in different diseases and populations.
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frequencies,MICA,MICB,NGS,non‐,classical HLA class I
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