Director Tissue Typing Laboratory Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, Massachusetts
A new strategy for systematically classifying HLA alleles into associated antigens was recently approved by the W.H.O. Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System. The use of HLA Serotypes will facilitate virtual crossmatches and donor specific antibody assessments by offering a formal definition of antigens and informing the implementation of single antigen bead panels that encompass all clinically relevant variants.
