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A new HLA-B15 allele (B * 1522) found in Bari-Motilones Amerindians in Venezuela: comparison of its intron 2 sequence with those of B * 1501 and B * 3504

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The contribution by Zulay Layrisse and Jorge Martinez-Laso is equal and the order of authorship is arbitrary

The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the GenBank nucleotide sequence database and have been assigned the accession numbers (B *1522, exon 2, and exon 3) L42506; (intron 2) L42539; (B *3504, intron 2) L40460; (B *1501, intron 2) L42468. The names listed fro this sequence have been officially assigned by the WHO Nomenclature Committee. This follows the agreed policy that, subject to the conditions stated in the most recent Nomenclature report, names will be assigned to new sequences as they are identified. Lists of such new names will be published in the following WHO Nomenclature Report

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Martinez-Laso, J., Layrisse, Z., Gomez-Casado, E. et al. A new HLA-B15 allele (B * 1522) found in Bari-Motilones Amerindians in Venezuela: comparison of its intron 2 sequence with those of B * 1501 and B * 3504 . Immunogenetics 43, 108–109 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00186616

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