Trends of HLA allele typing and antibody testing in 16^th IHWS and 39^th ASHI

Abstract

The results of HLA allele typing and antibody testing are important especially in case of organ and hematopoietic cell transplantation. Therefore, the subjects about methodology and accuracy of result are sometimes focused on at conference. In fact, there were many subjects about HLA testing at 16^th IHWS (16^th International histocompatibility Workshop) and 39^th ASHI (39th American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Conference). In the view of HLA allele typing, NGS (Next Generation Sequencing) was capturing the spotlight as new technology. And in the field of HLA antibody testing, the standardization of protocol in a technique, the epitope and complement fixing HLA antibody in an analysis were the major subjects. In this short review, I summarize the detail contents at 16^th IHWS and 39^th ASHI in HLA testing that is a little bit different from direction of Japan.