Identification of a novel MICA allele: MICA*051

I Quiroga; D Sweeney; P M Sutton; S D J Chapple; J P Souto-Grando; M C N M Barnardo; S V Fuggle

doi:10.1111/j.0001-2815.2004.00195.x

Identification of a novel MICA allele: MICA*051

Tissue Antigens. 2004 May;63(5):466-9. doi: 10.1111/j.0001-2815.2004.00195.x.

Authors

I Quiroga¹, D Sweeney, P M Sutton, S D J Chapple, J P Souto-Grando, M C N M Barnardo, S V Fuggle

Affiliation

¹ Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

PMID: 15104678
DOI: 10.1111/j.0001-2815.2004.00195.x

Abstract

We have identified a novel MICA allele, MICA*051, detected by the polymerase chain reaction using sequence-specific primers and characterized by sequence-based typing. MICA*051 appears to be the result of a recombination between MICA*00801 and MICA*00701 at intron 2.

MeSH terms

Alleles
Base Sequence
DNA Primers
Exons
Histocompatibility Antigens Class I / genetics*
Humans
Introns
Molecular Sequence Data
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Polymorphism, Genetic

Substances

DNA Primers
Histocompatibility Antigens Class I
MHC class I-related chain A

Associated data

GENBANK/AJ563426