Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hum Immunol. 2019 Feb 5;80(9):633–643. doi: 10.1016/j.humimm.2019.01.010

Table 2:

Resolving genotypic ambiguity

A: Family2A
Subject Relationship Original Reduced
767 child DPB1*03:01:01+DPB1*05:01:01|
DPB1*135:01+DPB1*104:01
DPB1*03:01:01+
DPB1*05:01:01
768 child DPB1*03:01:01+DPB1*04:01:01|
DPB1*124:01+DPB1*350:01
DPB1*03:01:01+
DPB1*04:01:01
769 father DPB1*03:01:01+DPB1*13:01:01|
DPB1*03:01:01+DPB1*107:01
DPB1*03:01:01+
DPB1*13:01:01/DPB1*107:01
76A mother DPB1*04:01:01:01+DPB1*05:01:01 DPB1*04:01:01:01+DPB1*05:01:01
B: Family2B
Subject Relationship Original Reduced
2B1 child DPB1*05:01:01+
DPB1*05:01:01
DPB1*05:01:01+
DPB1*05:01:01
2B2 child DPB1*05:01:01+
DPB1*135:01
DPB1*05:01:01+
DPB1*135:01
2B3 child DPB1*05:01:01+
DPB1*13:01:01/DPB1*107:01|
DPB1*135:01+DPB1*519:01
DPB1*05:01:01+
DPB1*13:01:01/DPB1*107:01
2B4 father DPB1*05:01:01+DPB1*135:01 DPB1*05:01:01+DPB1*135:01
2B5 mother DPB1*05:01:01+
DPB1*13:01:01/DPB1*107:01|
DPB1*135:01+DPB1*519:01
DPB1*05:01:01+
DPB1*13:01:01/DPB1*107:01
C:
Family Subject Relationship Original Reduced
7457 158B child DPB1*02:01:02+DPB1*104:01|
DPB1*124:01+DPB1*414:01
DPB1*02:01:02+DPB1*104:01
7457 158A mother DPB1*02:01:02+DPB1*104:01|
DPB1*124:01+DPB1*414:01
DPB1*02:01:02+DPB1*104:01
7457 1589 father DPB1*02:01:02+DPB1*104:01|
DPB1*124:01+DPB1*414:01
DPB1*02:01:02+DPB1*104:01
73 78B82 mother DPB1*04:01:01:01+DPB1*04:02:01:02|
DPB1*105:01+DPB1*126:01
DPB1*04:01:01:01+DPB1*04:02:01:02
73 78B83 child DPB1*04:01:01:01+DPB1*04:02:01:02|
DPB1*105:01+DPB1*126:01
DPB1*04:01:01:01+DPB1*04:02:01:02
73 78B84 father DPB1*04:01:01:01+DPB1*04:02:01:02|
DPB1*105:01+DPB1*126:01
DPB1*04:01:01:01+DPB1*04:02:01:02
273 1934 child DPB1*03:01:01+DPB1*04:01:01:01|
DPB1*124:01+DPB1*350:01
DPB1*03:01:01+DPB1*04:01:01:01
273 1935 father DPB1*03:01:01+DPB1*04:01:01:01|
DPB1*124:01+DPB1*350:01
DPB1*03:01:01+DPB1*04:01:01:01
273 1936 mother DPB1*03:01:01+DPB1*04:01:01:01|
DPB1*124:01+DPB1*350:01
DPB1*03:01:01+DPB1*04:01:01:01

The original HLA genotypes that are obtained from NGS HLA typing software applications are shown in the “Original” column. The prefix “HLA-” is omitted from gene names in this table. Table 2A shows a family (Family2A) in which two children had genotypic ambiguities in their HLA-DPB1 genotypes. These genotype ambiguities are not resolvable when these individual’s HLA genotypes are reviewed. When the father’s (HLA-DPB1*03:01:01+HLA-DPB1*13:01:01/HLA-DPB1*107:01) and mother’s (HLA-DPB1*04:01:01:01+HLA-DPB1*05:01:01) genotypes are reviewed, the only possible genotypes for child1 and child2 are HLA-DPB1*03:01:01+HLA-DPB1*05:01:01 and HLA-DPB1*03:01:01+HLA-DPB1*04:01:01, respectively. Table 2B shows another family (Family2B) in which a child (2B3) and mother (2B5) share genotypic ambiguity. In Family2B, if subject 2B3 were the only child, then it would not be possible to resolve the genotypic ambiguity; the genotypes of children 2B1 and 2B2 made it possible to establish haplotype phase. Table 2C: We identified four families in which all family members had the same ambiguous HLA-DPB1 genotype. Of these four families, Table 2C shows three such families. The fourth family had the same HLA-DPB1 genotype as family 273, and was omitted from the table. This is an uninformative genotype example, in which haplotypes cannot be built using segregation. HaplObserve selected the lowest-digit allele name combination as a default.