Bookedited by Frank T. Christiansen, Brian D. Tait.
Contents:
Major histocompatibility complex : a paradigm for studies of the human genome / Richard J.N. Allcock
HLA typing by SSO and SSP methods / Heather Dunckley
Methods for diagnostic HLA typing in disease association and drug hypersensitivity / Michael D. Varney [and others]
HLA typing using bead-based methods / Daniel Trajanoski and Samantha J. Fidler
HLA Typing by Direct DNA Sequencing / Linda K. Smith
Data analysis of HLA sequencing using assign-SBT v3.6+ from conexio / Carla Wirtz and David Sayer
Simple methods for the detection of HLA-G variants in coding and non-coding regions / Holger Nuckel [and others]
Molecular typing of HLA-E / Nina Lauterbach [and others]
Molecular analysis of complement component C4 gene copy number / Alison S.L. Castley and O. Patricia Martinez
Genotyping of single nucleotide polymorphisms by 5' nuclease allelic discrimination / Mari Malkki and Effie W. Petersdorf
High resolution MICA genotyping by sequence-based typing (SBT) / Yizhou Zou and Peter Stastny
Standard methods for the management of immunogenetic data / Pierre-Antoine Gourraud [and others]
Analytical methods for immunogenetic population data / Steven J. Mack [and others]
Analytical methods for disease association studies with immunogenetic data / Jill A. Hollenbach [and others]
Impact of HLA matching and HLA antibodies in organ transplantation : a collaborative transplant study view / Caner Susal and Gerhard Opelz
Screening for antibodies against MICA by luminex flow cytometry / Yizhou Zou and Peter Stastny
HLA antibody detection and characterization by solid phase immunoassays : methods and pitfalls / Andrea A. Zachary [and others]
Detection and characterisation of alloreactive T cells / Mandvi Bharadwaj, Nicole A. Mifsud, and James McCluskey
Detection of allo-HLA cross-reactivity by virus-specific memory T-cell clones using single HLA-transfected K562 cells / Lloyd J. D'Orsogna [and others]
Separation and cryopreservation of lymphocytes from spleen and lymph node / Gabriella Tassone and Samantha J. Fidler
Crossmatching by Complement-Dependent Lymphocytotoxicity / Samantha J. Fidler
Lymphocyte crossmatch by flow cytometry for Kidney Transplantation / Jonathan Downing
Overview of the killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor system / Raja Rajalingam
KIR typing by non-sequencing methods : polymerase-chain reaction with sequence-specific primers / David Ordonez [and others]
Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) typing by DNA sequencing / Lihua Hou [and others]
Overview of methods required to evaluate donor NK cell alloreactivity for haploidentical haemopoietic stem cell transplantation / Andrea Velardi
Detection of NK cell alloreactivity by flow cytometric CD107a assay / Dianne De Santis [and others]
Clinical production and therapeutic applications of alloreactive natural killer cells / David H. McKenna [and others]
Minor histocompatibility antigen typing by DNA sequencing for clinical practice in hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation / Eric Spierings and Els Goulmy
Donor registries and search strategies / Carolyn K. Hurley, Machteld Oudshoorn, and Michelle Setterholm
Cytokine gene polymorphisms : methods of detection and biological significance / Gurvinder Kaur and Narinder Mehra
IMGT® tools for the nucleotide analysis of immunoglobulin (IG) and T cell receptor (TR) V-(D)-J repertoires, polymorphisms, and IG mutations : IMGT/V-QUEST and IMGT/HighV-QUEST for NGS / Eltaf Alamyar
IMGT/DomainGapAlign : the IMGT® tool for the analysis of IG, TR, MH, IgSF, and MhSF domain amino acid polymorphism / Francois Ehrenmann and Marie-Paule Lefranc
Human Gm, Km, and Am allotypes and their molecular characterization : a remarkable demonstration of polymorphism / Marie-Paule Lefranc and Gerard Lefranc.