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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 Central Africa. (For terminology help see: HLA-serotype tutorial)

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Serotype

B42 serotype recognition of Some HLA B*42 allele-group gene products^[2]
B*42	B42	other	Sample
allele	%	%	size (N)
4201	93	2	1015
4202	95		80

Serological typing for B*4201 and B*4202 is relatively efficient.

B*4201 allele frequencies

**HLA B*4201 frequencies**
		freq
ref.	Population	(%)
^[3]	Zambia Lusaka	14.8
^[3]	Mali Bandiagara	13.8
^[3]	Burkina Faso Mossi	13.2
^[3]	South Africian 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

References

^ Marsh SG, Albert ED, Bodmer WF, et al (2005). "Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, 2004". Tissue Antigens 65 (4): 301–69. doi:10.1111/j.1399-0039.2005.00379.x. PMID 15787720.
^ derived from IMGT/HLA
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al ^am ^an ^ao ^ap ^aq ^ar ^as ^at ^au ^av ^aw ^ax ^ay ^az ^ba Middleton D, Menchaca L, Rood H, Komerofsky R (2003). "New allele frequency database: http://www.allelefrequencies.net". Tissue Antigens 61 (5): 403-7. PMID 12753660.

v • d • e HLA-B Serotypes and allele groups
HLA-B - B5 (B51 - B52) - B7 - B8 - B12 (B44 - B45) - B13 - B14 (B64 - B65) - B15 (B62 - B63 - B70 - B71- B75 - B76 - B77) - B16 (B38 - B39) - B17 (B57 - B58) - B18 - B21 (B49 - B50) - B22 (B54 - B55 - B56) - B27 - B35 - B37 - B40 (B60 - B61) - B41 - B42 - B46 - B47 - B48 - B53 - B59 - B67 - B73 - B78 - B81 - B82 - B83

Category: HLA-B alleles

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