Identification of a novel HLA-A*24 variant in a Maldivian family with a bone marrow patient, by sequence based typing.

We describe the identification of the novel HLA-A*24:135 allele [nucleotide 397 (T->C) in exon 3, Phe->Leu at codon 109 in ?2 domain, compared with A*24:02:01] by sequence-based typing (SBT).