Poster Presentations
Poster Presentations - Hall 2 Exhibition Area : Friday, 1st June, 16:45-18:15
Poster Group No 1 - Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
P1 A STUDY COMPARING THE VALUE OF MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES USED IN CHIMAERISM ANALYSIS AS PREDICTIVE INDICATORS OF GRAFT LOSS AFTER HAEMOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
H Sharwin, H Lee, K Latham, K Poulton (Manchester)
P2 STABLE HLA CLASS I INFORMATION IN KOREANS OBTAINED BY FULL-LENGTH CODING SEQUENCES OF THE GENES
K Lee, Y Jung (Anyang)
P3 IMPROVED GENOTYPE AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION OF SBT HLA CLASS 1 AND CLASS 2 BY THE USE OF GSSP’S
N Westerink, E de Jager, J Adema, M Bacelar, Y Hilkes, E Rozemuller (Utrecht)
P4 MULTICOLOR FLOWCYTOMETRIC IMMUNOPHENOTYPING IDENTIFIED THREE SUBPOPULATIONS WITHIN CD34+ CELL FRACTION IN CORD BLOOD
VK Atanasova, M Atanasova, A Nikolov, V Zlatkov, AP Mihaylova, EJ Naumova (Sofia)
P5 NEGATIVE CONTROL EVALUATION USING REAL TIME PCR ON CHIMERISM STUDY
M Alizadeh, V Renac, M Cherel, C Lapart, D Bories, G Semana (Rennes)
P6 ANTI-HLA-DQA SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES DETECTED IN A POTENTIAL HAPLOIDENTICAL HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANPLANTATION RECIPIENT
AR Ojrzynska, EF Correa, HM North, R Patel, J Brown, CJ Brown (London)
P7 PATIENTS TREATMENT AFTER HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
C Lehmann (Leipzig)
P8 DNA QUALITY AND QUANTITY MEASUREMENT BY WAVELENGTHS: A FRENCH MULTICENTER STUDY
M Alizadeh, S Tourne, D Masson, F Maussion-Beurier, S Hammerer, A Mathern, B Coeffic, I Mollet, V Elsermans, L Absi, P Perrier, P Augustin, S Rubier, N Tiertant, O Avinens, PA Apoil, B Pédron, M Boulanger, M Drouet, V Renac (Rennes)
P9 EXCELLENT REPEATABILITY (WITHIN RUN PRECISION)OF REAL TIME QUANTITATIVE PCR USED FOR CHIMERISM QUANTIFICATION AFTER HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
D Bories, W Piterboth, C Debert, V Dumont, C Latouche, M Alizadeh (Creteil)
P10 COMPUTER ASSISTED SEARCH FOR UNRELATED DONORS USING THE EASYMATCH - TOOL AT FRANCE GREFFE DE MOELLE
PA Gourraud, M Balère, A Dormoy, P Loiseau, E Marry, F Garnier (San Francisco)
P11 KIR GENES POLYMORPHISM IN GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE
M Perez-Rodriguez, E Bravo-Flores, S Silva-Sanchez, E Sánchez-Valle, J Martinez-Alvarez, A Arrazola-Garcia, M Contreras-Serratos, W Vazquez-Gonzalez (Mexico)
P12 EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF REAL TIME PCR CHIMERISM MONITORING ON CLINICAL OUTCOME POST HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT
S Etessami, Y Shen, J Palmer, L Gaidulis, S Trakulboon, D Senitzer (Duarte, California)
P13 KIR GENOTYPING OF THE BEST HLA-MATCHED UNRELATED DONORS FOR PATIENT WITH ACUTE MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA IN THE CZECH NATIONAL MARROW DONORS REGISTRY
P Venigová, P Jindra, V Koza (Pilsen)
P14 IMPACT OF TYPING STRATEGY ON FINDING AN HLA-MATCHED UNRELATED DONOR: THE ROLE OF HLA-C
I Kemperle, S Montanic, J Pretnar, B Vidan-Jeras (Ljubljana)
P15 TNF-1031 SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM: AN INDEPENDENT PREDICTOR OF SEVERE GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE?
C Harkensee, A Oka, PG Middleton, AR Gennery, H Inoko, Y Morishima (North Shields)
P16 TEN NOVEL HLA-A AND HLA-DRB1 ALLELES IDENTIFIED THROUGH GROUP SPECIFIC AMPLIFICATION AT ANTHONY NOLAN
S Wallis-Jones, AJ McWhinnie, JA Madrigal, K Latham, SGE Marsh (London)
P17 GRAFT FAILURE IN A STEM CELL TRANSPLANT PATIENT WITH DONOR SPECIFIC HLA ANTIBODIES.
GF Fischer, C Duregger, I Faé, WR Mayr, W Rabitsch, H Greinix, P Kalhs (Vienna)
P18 NON-CODING REGIONS OF HLA-B AND -C CONTAIN HAPLOTYPE SPECIFIC POLYMORPHISMS SUGGESTING THAT NON-CODING SEQUENCES SHOULD BE INCLUDED WHEN MATCHING FOR UNRELATED STEM CELL TRANSPLANTS
CM Wirtz, HM Hogan, DC Sayer (Fremantle)
P19 IDENTIFICATION OF NON-PERMISSIVE AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH ONE YEAR OVERALL SURVIVAL IN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
SR Marino, SM Lee, M Haagenson, T Binkowski, S Spellman, SJ Lee, T Karrison (Chicago, IL)
P20 FUNCTIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF TGFB1 POLYMORPHISMS IN REGULATORY T CELLS AND HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
E Arrieta-Bolaños, JA Madrigal, BE Shaw (London)
P21 BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION IN MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS TYPE I FROM A SIBLING WHO HAD RECEIVED A CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANT
Z Williams, RF Wynn, A Logan, D Tate, K Wood, K Poulton, H Lee (Manchester)
P22 PEDIATRIC HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR ONCOHAEMATOLOGICAL DISEASES: A SINGLE CENTER EXPERIENCE FROM 1995 TO 2010
L Carlini, A Fabris, G Pellis, E Bevilacqua, M Rabusin, N Maximova, L Ronfani, M Montico, LG Mascaretti (Trieste)
P23 IMPACT OF HIGH-RESOLUTION (HR) HLA TYPING ON THE OUTCOME OF DUAL UNIT UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTATION (UCBT)
V Kitsiou, F Panitsas, I Baltadakis, T Athanassiades, D Kouniaki, K Tarassi, K Papageorgiou, S Gigantes, I Apostolodis, D Karakasis, N Harhalakis, C Papasteriades (Athens)
P24 HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY: A SIBLING DONOR MISMATCHED AT HLA-A DUE TO RECOMBINATION
C Matthews, M Abinun, AN Dunn, MA Green, J Morris, MA Slatter, S Hambleton, V Carter, W Howell (Newcastle upon Tyne)
P25 RELATED DONOR PROFILE FOR PATIENTS WHO ARE CONSIDERED FOR ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
FS Oguz, SK Besisik, C Kekik, GE Karahan, S Temurhan, S Usta, F Aydin, D Sargin (ISTANBUL)
P26 CXCL12-3’A ALLELE IF PRESENT IN TRANSPLANTED MATERIAL ASSOCIATES WITH LOWER TOXICITY BUT IF IN RECIPIENTS MAKES THEM LESS SENSITIVE TO ACUTE GVHD - POLISH DONOR-RECIPIENT STUDY GROUP
K Bogunia-Kubik, S Mizia, M Polak, A Gronkowska, J Nowak, S Kyrcz-Krzemien, M Markiewicz, M Dzierzak-Mietla, W Olchowy, A Koclega, M Sobczyk-Kruszelnicka, M Sedzimirska, K Suchnicki, D Duda, J Lange, M Mordak-Domagala, J Werkun, K Koscinska, W Jedrzejczak, T Torosian, K Halaburda, B Kaczmarek, P Rybarczyk, K Sepkowska, A Hellmann, A Kucharska, J Kowalczyk, K Drabko, K Warzocha, A Tomaszewska, R Mika-Witkowska, A Dlugokecka, J Gozdzik, A Mordel, E Jaskula, A Lange (Wroclaw)
P27 BONE MARROW DONORS REGISTRY ACTIVITY IN THE NORTH HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CENTRE - OPORTO, PORTUGAL
H Alves, J Mota, F Godinho, C Navio, N Santos, A Pinto, F Freitas (Porto)
P28 DISTRIBUTION OF THE KIR B-CONTENT GROUPS IN THE HEAMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL DONORS OF THE REPUBLICAN REGISTER OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
LN Bubnova, IE Pavlova, IV Sokolova (St.-Petersburg)
P29 HIGH DEFINITION TYPING FOR HLA-DRB1* LOCUS USING PCR-SSO LUMINEX TECHNOLOGY: A SINGLE CENTRE EXPERIENCE
D Merlo, V Cappuzzo, F Ingrassia, R Bavetta, S Mistretta, M Blando, E Collura, R Marcenò (Palermo)
P30 IL-10 PROMOTER POLYMORPHISMS INFLUENCE THE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO AGVHD AND CMV REACTIVATION AND ASSOCIATE WITH PROPORTIONS OF CD4+FOXP3+ LYMPHOCYTES IN BLOOD POST HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION - POLISH DONOR-RECIPIENT MATCHING STUDY GROUP
E Jaskula, S Mizia, D Dlubek, A Tarnowska, M Polak, A Gronkowska, J Nowak, S Kyrcz-Krzemien, M Markiewicz, M Dzierzak-Mietla, W Olchowy, A Koclega, M Sobczyk-Kruszelnicka, M Sedzimirska, K Suchnicki, D Duda, J Lange, M Mordak-Domagala, J Werkun, K Koscinska, WW Jedrzejczak, T Torosian, K Halaburda, B Kaczmarek, P Rybarczyk, K Sepkowska, A Hellmann, A Kucharska, J Kowalczyk, K Drabko, K Warzocha, A Tomaszewska, R Mika-Witkowska, A Dlugokecka, J Gozdzik, A Mordel, A Lange (Wroclaw)
P31 AN IMPROVED ALGORITHM FOR THE SELECTION OF UNRELATED HLA-MISMATCHED HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL DONORS
B Adams, L Foster, A Logan, K Poulton (Manchester)
P32 THE CROATIAN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION PROGRAM: THE SEARCH FOR AN UNRELATED DONOR
Z Grubic, K Stingl, R Serventi-Seiwerth, B Labar, R Zunec (Zagreb)
P33 THE ROLE OF DONOR-SPECIFIC ANTI-HLA ANTIBODIES IN HLA-MISMATCHED HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION.
D Focosi (Pisa)
P34 THE USE OF GROUP SPECIFIC SEQUENCING PRIMERS TO INVESTIGATE THREE ATYPICAL HLA-A ALLELES
L Foster, D Tate, J Davidson, K Poulton (Manchester)
P35 ANALYSIS OF HLA ALLELES DISTRIBUTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF “RARE ALLELES”
M Catalano, T Valentini, A Moscetti, S Angeloni, L Fenici, A Bruni, C Barzi, G Brioli, M Gallone, O Loreti, P Angelosanto, S Trabace, P Grammatico (Rome)
P36 SEQUENCE BASED TYPING LAB ACTIVITY: EXPERIENCE FROM THE NORTH HISTOCOMPATIBILITY CENTRE, OPORTO - PORTUGAL
S Oliveira, S Tafulo, M Peixoto, F Mendes, M Dias, H Alves (Porto)
P37 TRENDS IN SEARCHING FOR UNRELATED STEM CELL DONORS IN ISRAEL
M Israeli, M Yeshurun, J Stein, R Ron, T Klein (Petach-Tikva)
P38 THE DESIGN OF A PCR-SSP PANEL TO REDUCE HLA TYPING AMBIGUITIES ARISING FROM OUR CURRENT LOCAL SEQUENCE BASED TYPING PROTOCOL.
F Powell, AJ McWhinnie, F Tavarozzi, JA Madrigal, SGE Marsh, K Latham (London)
P39 IMPORTANSE OF THE PROLIFERATIVE RESPONSE IN MIXED LYMPHOCYTES CULTURE REACTION AT THE GENOTYPI SEARCH OF HLA IDENTICAL SIBLING AS DONORS FOR BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION
AP Spakova, LL Golovkina, TI Bulycheva, RM Kutyina, LS Lubimova (Moscow)
P40 EVALUATION OF ALLELESEQR CHIMERISM® KIT FOR THE DETECTION OF CHIMERISM POST TRANSPLANT: IMPACT OF DIFFERENT DNA EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES.
C Frassati, S Bidault, M Brito, N Cherouat, A Basire, C Picard (Marseille)
P41 INACCURACY OF HLA-DRB1*16:08
JH Kempenich, J Dehn, M Setterholm (Minneapolis, MN)
P42 THE MOST FREQUENT MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION IN CORD BLOOD SAMPLES RECEIVED IN LUSOCORD FROM JULY TO DECEMBER OF 2011
A Cardoso, C Azevedo, M Mendes, J Teixeira, H Alves (Porto)
P43 THE EVOLUTION OF THE HLA-DRB1 SINGLE-TUBE PCR SEQUENCNG BASED TYPING ASSAY: CONTINUING TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF AN INCREASINGLY COMPLEX SYSTEM
HM Hogan, A Hedlund, DM Goodridge, DC Sayer (Fremantle)
P44 PREDICTING SUCCES IN MATCHED UNRELATED HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL DONOR SEARCH
KA Thus, SM van Walraven, E Borst, C Kesmir, MM Jöris, E Spierings, M Oudshoorn (Utrecht)
P45 NEW HLA ALLELES OBSERVED IN A LARGE NUMBER OF POTENTIAL BLOOD STEM CELL DONORS DETERMINED BY SEQUENCE BASED TYPING (SBT)
N Cereb, A Schmidt, SGE Marsh, G Ehninger, S Yang (Ossining)
P46 CHARACTERISATION OF THE NOVEL HLA-DQB1*06:48 ALLELE USING AN IN-HOUSE GROUP SPECIFIC SEQUENCING TECHNIQUE
L Foster, D Tate, K Poulton (Manchester)
P47 MATERNAL CHIMERISM IN CB MEDIATES A GRAFT VERSUS LEUKEMIA EFFECT IN UNRELATED CB GRAFT RECIPIENTS
JJ van Rood, A Scaravadou, CE Srevens (Leiden)
P48 KIR+ NK CELLS SHOW INCREASED DEGRANULATION ACTIVITY IN KIR-HLA MISMATCH SITUATIONS POST-STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
PS Becker, R Richter, JF Hennecke, T Klingebiel, E Seifried, P Bader, C Seidl (Frankfurt)
P49 EFFECT OF HLA MATCHING ON NEUTROPHIL ENGRAFTMENT AFTER HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
D Fürst, D Bunjes, M Gramatzki, W Herr, G Stuhler, R Schwerdtfeger, C Müller, H Schrezenmeier, J Mytilineos (Ulm)
P50 AN ANALYSIS OF HLA DETERMINANTS OF NON-TRANSPLANTED CANDIDATES FOR HSC RESULTS IN A PREDICTIVE METRICS OF THE OUTCOME OF THE SEARCH
PA Gourraud, M Balère, P Loiseau, A Dormoy, E Marry, F Garnier (San Francisco)
P51 COMBINATION OF COMPLEMENT - DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITY AND RELATIVE FLUORESCENT QUANTIFICATION OF HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS FACILITATES THE DETECTION OF A LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY IN A MIXED CELL POPULATION OF A RELAPSED LEUKEMIA PATIENT
K Witter, R Reibke, T Kauke, M Spannagl, A Dick (Munich)
P52 QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF HEMATOPOIETIC CHIMERISM AFTER ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION FOR ACUTE LEUKEMIA USING AMPLIFICATION BY REAL-TIME PCR OF INSERTION/DELETION POLYMORPHISMS
M Collado (Valencia)
P53 MULTI-SNP ANALYSIS OF HLA HAPLOTYPE AND ITS MATCHING EFFECT ON ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE IN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FROM UNRELATED DONOR
S Morishima, S Ogawa, A Sato-Otsubo, K Kashiwase, T Sasazuki, Y Morishima (Toyoake, Aichi)
P54 IS THERE AN IMPACT OF HLA MISMATCH DIRECTION ON OUTCOMES AFTER UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTATION?
P Loiseau, R Cunha, A Ruggeri, G Sanz, G Michel, A Lori, G Socié, W Arcese, C Dias de Heredia, B Rio, F Locatelli, T O'Brain, I Yakoub-Agha, M Diaz, N Milpied, H Bittencourt, M Souza, K Boudjedir, E Gluckman, D Charron, V Rocha (Paris)
P55 THE EFFECT OF INCORPORATING NON-INHERITED MATERNAL ANTIGENS INTO CORD DONOR SEARCH ALGORITHMS
R Holman, SGE Marsh, JA Madrigal, P Chenery, S Gomez, K Latham (London)
P56 CELLULAR AND HUMORAL IMMUNITY ELICITATED BY INFLUENZA VACCINES IN PEDIATRIC HEMATOPOIETIC-STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
M Duchamp, V Guérin-El Khourouj, A Krivine, B Pédron, M Ouachee-Chardin, K Yakouben, A Baruchel, J Dalle, G Sterkkers (Paris)
P57 EXPANDING THE LINEAR DYNAMIC RANGE OF MOLECULAR RESEARCH TOOLS FOR MONITORING STEM CELL ENGRAFTMENT AND TRANSPLANT REJECTION
CL Sigua, PP Wadia, S Beckert, IJ McLaughlin, DA Bost (Alameda)
P58 MICROSATELLITE SCANNING OF THE IMMUNOGENOME FOR ASSOCIATIONS WITH HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION OUTCOMES
C Harkensee, A Oka, PG Middleton, M Onizuka, AR Gennery, H Inoko, K Ando, Y Morishima (North Shields)
P59 ANTI-HLA ANTIBODIES AND OUTCOME IN PEDIATRIC CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTATION
M Ansari, H Bittencourt, C Uppugunduri, Y Chalandon, S Ferrari-Lacraz, F Gumy-Pause, H Ozsahin, J Tiercy, M Duval, M Krajinovic, J Villard (Geneva)
P60 SEMAPHORIN 7A IS UPREGULATED AFTER CHEMOTHERAPY AND ALTERS THE BALANCE OF CD34+ PROGENITOR CELL DIFFERENTIATION
C Figueiredo, Y Jaimes, C Gras, L Goudeva, S Buchholz, B Eiz-Vesper, S Immenschuh, R Blasczyk (Hannover)
P61 SEMAPHORIN 5A IS A BIOMARKER FOR GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE AFTER HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
C Figueiredo, C Gras, S Buchholz, B Eiz-Vesper, S Immenschuh, R Blasczyk (Hannover)
P62 THE DELETERIOUS EFFECT OF GENDER MISMATCHING DEPENDS ON GRAFT SOURCE CHARACTERISTICS
E Spierings, M Stern, A Gratwohl, M Malkki, TA Gooley, EW Petersdorf, on behalf of the International Working Group in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (IHWG-HCT) (Utrecht)
P63 EFFICIENCY OF A MUD SEARCH: PREDICTIONS BASED ON ALLELE ASSOCIATIONS AND HAPLOTYPES
V Crijns, C Voorter, M Brands, I Verblakt, E Drenth, M Janssen, I Wierts, H Schouten, M Tilanus (Maastricht)
P64 RECIPIENT’S UGT2B17 GENE DELETION SEEMS TO BE ITSELF A RISK FACTOR FOR RELAPSE AND DEATH IN HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION.
C Badulli, M Guarene, C Pascutto, G Giorgiani, A Colombo, D Caldera, E Alessandrino, M Zecca, F Locatelli, L Salvaneschi, M Martinetti (Pavia)
P65 MONITORING OF ANTIVIRAL T CELLS IN STEM CELL DONORS AND THEIR GRAFTS: EFFECTS OF G-CSF MOBILISATION AND THE APHERESIS PROCEDURE ON FREQUENCY AND FUNCTIONALITY OF ANTIVIRAL T-CELLS
S Borchers, C Bunse, S Tischer, C Figueiredo, L Goudeva, H Heuft, S Immenschuh, E Dammann, S Buchholz, M Stadler, U Köhl, B Maecker-Kolhoff, A Ganser, R Blasczyk, E Weissinger, B Eiz-Vesper (Hannover)
P66 THE DELETERIOUS IMPACT OF ACTIVATING KIR NK CELLS ON UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD ENGRAFTMENT.
K Gagne, N Legrand, C Willem, V Sebille, Z Djaoud, P Chevallier, L Lode, J Esbelin, A Cesbron Gautier, G Follea, P Moreau, D Senitzer, M Mohty, C Retiere (Nantes)
P67 NK ALLOREACTIVITY IS REDUCED BY GCSF BUT ENHANCED BY PLERIXAFOR
V Rebmann, M Switala, FM Heinemann, HD Ottinger, R Noppeney, DW Beelen, PA Horn, L Kordelas (Essen)
P68 DONOR-PATIENT PAIRS WITH FREQUENT 5 LOCUS HIGH RESOLUTION TYPED HLA-HAPLOTYPES IN HIGH LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN HLA-B/-C AND -DRB1 HAVE DECREASED RISK OF ACUTE GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE
MM Jöris, AC Lankester, PA von dem Borne, J Boelens, J Kuball, JJ Cornelissen, GW Haasnoot, H van der Zanden, ME Groenendijk-Sijnke, B van der Holt, JJ van Rood, M Oudshoorn, FH Claas (Leiden)
P69 ANTHONY NOLAN CORD BLOOD PROGRAMME: HIGH QUALITY UNITS TO IMPROVE THE UK CORD BLOOD INVENTORY
DA Gibson, RB Horton, R Davy, LJ Fry, P Sami, C Leonforte, A Mitra, M Marciniak, SG Gomez, G Parkes, S Querol, JA Madrigal (Nottingham)
P70 IDENTIFICATION OF HOUSEKEEPING GENES FOR GENE EXPRESSION STUDIES IN ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR AND CANCER CELLS
V Grimaldi, M Rienzo, C Schiano, A Casamassimi, F Cavalca, C Napoli (Naples)
P71 TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR GENE POLYMORPHISMS CONFER SUSCEPTIBILITY TO GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE IN ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
J Sivula, T Jaatinen, H Turpeinen, L Volin, J Partanen (Helsinki)
P72 MINOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS AS DETERMINANTS FOR GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE AFTER ALLOGENEIC HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
H Turpeinen, P Ojala, L Volin, J Partanen (Helsinki)
P73 INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF HLA-DPB1 MATCHING STATUS IN 10/10 HLA MATCHED UNRELATED HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF A FRENCH MULTICENTRIC RETROSPECTIVE STUDY.
K Gagne, C Legall, P Loiseau, V Dubois, F Dufosse, P Perrier, A Dormoy, I Jollet, V Renac, D Masson, C Picard, D Fizet, D Hanau, F Quainon, H Ansart, B Coeffic, L Absi, J Francois, V Moalic, M Fort, G Bernard, I Theodorou, F Hau, A Batho, B Pedron, S Caillat, N Raus, M Mohty, C Raffoux, J Eliaou, M Balere, E Marry, A Cesbron (NANTES)
P74 HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR AUTOIMMUNITY: A CASE REPORT AND CLUES TO UNDERSTANDING THE THERAPY
OV Britanova, DA Bolotin, MA Turchaninova, IZ Mamedov, DA Fedorenko, DM Chudakov (Moscow)
P75 ANTHONY NOLAN GRAFT IDENTIFICATION ADVISORY SERVICE RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS
M Smith, A Price, S Grace, S Denovan, S Mackinnon, H Blake, C Blackwell, I Evseeva (London)
P76 A NEW SEQUENCING-BASED HLA-TYPING STRATEGY ALLOWING HIGH-THROUGHPUT TISSUE TYPING AT INTERMEDIATE RESOLUTION
J Adema, N Westerink, W Mulder, E Rozemuller (Utrecht)
P77 REAL-TIME PCR APPROACH IMPROVES SENSITIVITY OF CHIMERISM ANALYSIS IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES GIVEN STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
D Lisini, G Acquafredda, M Labirio, L Caliogna, D Montagna, R Maccario, M Zecca (Pavia)
P78 INTERFERON-GAMMA INDUCIBLE HLA-DP ANTIGEN EXPRESSION ON HEALTHY AND MALIGNANT HEMATOPOIETIC CELLS IS OBSERVED ACROSS DIFFERENT T CELL EPITOPE GROUPS
F Sizzano, L Zito, P Crivello, J Marcon, C Toffalori, F Ciceri, K Fleischhauer (Milan)
P79 EXON 3 VARIABILITY DOES NOT ALTER EXPRESSION AND ALLORECOGNITION OF HLA-DP3: IMPLICATION FOR UNRELATED STEM CELL DONOR SELECTION
P Crivello, N Lauterbach, L Zito, F Sizzano, J Marcon, L Curci, A Mulder, L Wieten, E Zino, CE Voorter, MG Tilanus, K Fleischhauer (Milan)
P80 RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN MICA-129 GENOTYPE DISTRIBUTION AMONG CAUCASIANS AND AFRICAN AMERICANS
A Zhang, M Askar, J DeVecchio, M Dunlap, D Thomas, P Kawczak, J McMichael, R Sobecks, M Askar (Cleveland)
P81 FREQUENCY OF FCGRIIIA POLYMORPHISMS IN NON T CELL DEPLETED HAPLOIDENTICAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
A Aureli, A Canossi, T Del Beato, R Arriga, S Santarone, P Di Bartolomeo, F Papola, W Arcese, G Sconocchia (L'Aquila)
P82 A NEW SCORE TO DETERMINE THE PROBABILITY OF FINDING AN HLA IDENTICAL UNRELATED DONOR : A PROMISING EFFICIENT TIME AND COST SAVING METHOD.
V Dubois, M Balere, M Sobh, S Morisset, H Labussiere, M Detrait, F Nicolini, S Rey, V Mialou, Y Bertrand, M Michallet (LYON)
P83 ASSESSING PURITY OF ISOLATED CELL POPULATIONS FOR LINEAGE-SPECIFIC CHIMAERISM MONITORING POST HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
V Hanson, J Lord, A Barker, H Sharwin, K Poulton, H Lee (Manchester)
P84 ASSOCIATION OF THE HLA-G 14-BASE PAIR INSERTION/DELETION POLYMORPHISM WITH SEVERE ACUTE GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE AFTER SIBLING BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION
W Boukouaci, M Busson, C Fortier, K Amokrane, R Peffault de Latour, M Robin, R Krishnamoorthy, A Toubert, D Charron, G Socié, R Tamouza (Paris)
P85 THE INFLUENCE OF PATIENT AND DONOR KIR HAPLOTYPES ON THE CLINICAL OUTCOME AFTER UNRELATED DONOR HSCT FOR PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM AML
J Schellekens, BE Shaw, NP Mayor, L Cooke, JA Madrigal, SGE Marsh (London)
P86 NATURAL KILLER CELL ACTIVITY AGAINST K562 TARGET CELLS IS ASSOCIATED WITH DONOR KIR GENOTYPE AND ALLELIC HLA CLASS I BACKGROUND
H Duske, T Eiermann, TM Binder, N Kroeger (Hamburg)
P87 MIXED LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE TYPING REVISITED: THE STRENGTH OF PROLIFERATIVE ALLORESPONSES TO HLA-DP REFLECTS THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF NON-PERMISSIVE T CELL EPITOPE GROUP MISMATCHES
F Sizzano, L Zito, P Crivello, FH Claas, K Fleischhauer, M Oudshoorn (Milan)
P88 ASSOCIATIONS OF THE CD94/NKG2A RECEPTOR GENE POLYMORPHISMS WITH THE OUTCOME OF ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION OF HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS
M Iwaszko, A Marzec, E Jaskula, K Bogunia-Kubik, A Lange (Wroclaw)
P89 INFLUENCE OF BLOOD SAMPLE CONSERVATION ON CHIMERISM MONITORING REGARDING WHITE BLOOD CELL COUNT
M Alizadeh, P Amé-Thomas, V Renac, M Cherel, K Tarte, G Semana (Rennes)
P90 COMPARITIVE ANALYSIS OF TWO FLOW CYTOMETRIC ASSAYS FOR THE QUANTIFICATION OF CELL-MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY
P Collins, A Barker, A Robson, V Hanson, K Poulton (Manchester)
P91 GENOMIC LOSS OF PATIENT-SPECIFIC HLA IN LEUKEMIC BLASTS CAN PROMPT IMMUNE EVASION AND CLINICAL RELAPSE OF ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA AFTER WELL-MATCHED UNRELATED DONOR HSCT
C Toffalori, I Cavattoni, S Deaola, S Mastaglio, F Giglio, B Mazzi, A Assanelli, J Peccatori, S Cortelazzo, F Ciceri, K Fleischhauer, L Vago (Milan)
P92 INTERFERENCE EVALUATION USING REAL TIME PCR FOR CHIMERISM STUDY
M Alizadeh, V Renac, M Cherel, C Lapart, D Bories, G Semana (Rennes)
Poster Group No 2 - MHC-peptides -Epitopes and Prediction
P93 INTRIGUING HLA TYPING ON TWO POTENTIAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANT CANDIDATES
LK Smith, E Ashworth, CS Witt, FT Christiansen (Perth)
P94 HLA-DR MISMATCH IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY AFTER HEART TRANSPLANTATION
V Crudele, F Cacciatore, E Cesario, C Maiello, G Romano, A Casamassimi, C Napoli (Naples)
P95 MODELING PEPTIDE BINDING ACROSS MISMATCHED HLA ALLELES IN HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION
TA Binkowski, SR Marino, A Joachimiak (Argonne)
P96 SHORT INTRONS ARE NOT UNIVERSAL FOR BIRDS
C Areces, D Rey, M Enríquez-de-Salamanca, J Serrano-Vela, A Arnaiz Villena (Madrid)
P97 PEPTIDE BINDING STUDIES ON HLA-DP, ASSOCIATED WITH SUSCEPTIBILITY TO CHRONIC HEPATITIS B IN EAST ASIAN POPULATION
A Takayanagi, H Miyadera, K Tokunaga (Tokyo)
P98 HLA-A26 IS ASSOCIATED WITH CMV INFECTION IN HEART TRANSPLANTATION RECIPIENS
M Sessa, F Cacciatore, C Maiello, V Crudele, G Romano, A Casamassimi, C Napoli (Naples)
P99 DIFFERENT DOSE EFFECT OF HLA GENOTYPE IN ADULT VERSUS CHILDREN PATIENTS WITH CELIAC DISEASE
M Fernandez-Cavada Pollo, M Alcalá Peña, M Vargas Pérez, J Melero Ruiz, E Doblaré Castellano, I Vallcorba Gómez del Valle, C González Roiz (Badajoz)
Poster Group No 3 - Antigen Presentation and Immunological Tolerance
P100 PD-L2 IS SIGNIFICANTLY UP-REGULATED IN FINE-NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY SAMPLES FROM STABLE AS COMPARED WITH ACUTE REJECTION KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS
M Xavier, S Sampaio, S Gaião, H Alves, G Oliveira (Porto)
P101 ICOS IS SIGNIFICANTLY UP-REGULATED IN FINE-NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY SAMPLES FROM ACUTE REJECTION KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS
M Xavier, S Sampaio, S Gaião, H Alves, G Oliveira (Porto)
P102 GITR/TNFRSF18 IS SIGNIFICANTLY UP-REGULATED IN FINE-NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY SAMPLES FROM STABLE AS COMPARED WITH ACUTE REJECTION KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS
M Xavier, S Sampaio, S Gaião, H Alves, G Oliveira (Porto)
P103 BONE MARROW DONORS FROM THE REGISTRY OF CAMPANIA REGION NA01: ASSESSMENT OF THE MAJOR HLA PATTERNS
C Sabia, V Crudele, P Minucci, M Resse, A Picascia, A Russo, A Casamassimi, C Napoli (Naples)
P104 A COMPARISON OF LABSCREEN MIXED AND LIFECODES LIFESCREEN DELUX CLASS I AND CLASS II ANTIBODIES KITS
M Resse, C Sabia, E Cesario, P Minucci, F Cavalca, A Russo, A Casamassimi, C Napoli (Naples)
Poster Group No 4 - Non-HLA Polymorphism
P105 GENETIC VARIANT OF THE G-CSF RECEPTOR GENE IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER MOBILIZATION POTENTIAL AND SLOWER RECOVERY OF GRANULOCYTES AFTER TRANSPLANTATION OF AUTOLOGOUS PERIPHERAL BLOOD PROGENITOR CELLS
K Gêbura, A Gieryng, K Bogunia-Kubik, A Lange (Wroclaw)
P106 DISTRIBUTION OF THE KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN-LIKE RECEPTORS (KIR) IN THE RUSSIAN POPULATION OF THE NORTHWEST REGION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
LN Bubnova, IV Sokolova, IE Pavlova (St.-Petersburg)
P107 GENOTYPE AND ALLELE DISTRIBUTION OF C3435T POLYMORPHISM OF MDR1 GENE IN TURKISH POPULATION
HS Ciftci, TK Ayna, YK Caliskan, I Guney, A Turkmen, M Gurtekin (Istanbul)
P108 FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION OF CERTAIN SNPS POLYMORPHISMS OF IL-1A, I L1B, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-10, IL-12, IFN-G, TNF-A AND CTLA-4 ARE PRESENTED IN 203 HEALTHY MEXICAN MESTIZOS.
D Garcia, C Alaez, H Flores-A, C Gorodezky (Mexico City)
P109 GENOTYPING USING PCR-SBT IDENTIFIES VARIANTS IN THE HNA ALLELES NOT DETECTED BY PCR-SSP
S Culliford, L Keen, A Poles, G Lucas, A Green (Bristol)
P110 INFLUENCE OF HLA MATCHING AND PRE-TRANSPLANT ANTI-HLA ANTIBODIES ON THE OUTCOME OF 2,599 DECEASED DONOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS TESTED IN A SINGLE LABORATORY
M Gerbase-DeLima, S Coria, LA Pereira (São Paulo)
P111 ANALYSIS OF INTERLEUKIN-1A AND INTERLEUKIN-1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST GENE POLYMORPHISMS IN 313 ALGERIANS PATIENTS WITH ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS.
A Habiba (Algiers)
P112 KIR REPERTOIRE OF THE HELLENIC CORD BLOOD BANK INVENTORY
A Dinou, M Spyropoulou-Vlachou, L Potamiti, E Panagouli, T Chatzistamatiou, A Papassavas, C Stavropoulos-Giokas (Athens)
P113 CHARACTERIZATION OF TWO NOVEL MICA ALLELES: MICA*067 AND MICA*068
S Wenda, I Faé, WR Mayr, GF Fischer (Vienna)
P114 HLA-LINKED MICROSATELLITES
E Dauber, E Schwartz-Jungl, S Wenda, B Glock, G Fischer, WR Mayr (Vienna)
P115 POLYMORPHISM OF TNF-ALPHA AND IL-6 SIGNIFICANTLY INFLUENCES THE OUTCOME OF HSCT IN UNRELATED DONORS SETTING - POLISH DONOR-RECIPIENT MATCHING STUDY GROUP
E Jaskula, S Mizia, M Polak, A Gronkowska, J Nowak, S Kyrcz-Krzemien, M Markiewicz, M Dzierzak-Mietla, W Olchowy, A Koclega, M Sobczyk-Kruszelnicka, M Sedzimirska, K Suchnicki, D Duda, J Lange, M Mordak-Domagala, J Werkun, K Koscinska, WW Jedrzejczak, T Torosian, K Halaburda, B Kaczmarek, P Rybarczyk, K Sepkowska, A Hellmann, A Kucharska, J Kowalczyk, K Drabko, K Warzocha, A Tomaszewska, R Mika-Witkowska, A Dlugokecka, J Gozdzik, A Mordel, A Lange (Wroclaw)
P116 ASSOCIATION OF POLYMORPHISMS IN PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR-ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA (PPARG) GENE WITH NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER IN POLISH LOWER SILESIA REGION
EA Pawlak-Adamska, EA Pawlak-Adamska, E Passowicz-Muszynska, R Jankowska, I Frydecka (Wroclaw)
P117 ROLE OF INTERLEUKIN 28B POLYMORPHISMS IN THE OUTCOME OF LIVER TRANSPLANTATED HCV-INFECTED PATIENTS
FE Bertinetto, R Romagnoli, PJ Bogantes Hernandez, M Salizzoni, P Magistroni, E Dametto, E Garino, ME Fasano, A Amoroso (Turin)
P118 POLYMORPHIC VARIATIONS OF SEMAPHORIN 7A ALTER ITS FUNCTION IN THE REGULATION OF ANTIGEN PRESENTATION AND EFFECTOR IMMUNE RESPONSE
C Gras, Y Jaimes, B Eiz-Vesper, S Immenschuh, R Blasczyk, C Figueiredo (Hannover)
P119 NOD2/CARD15 GENETIC VARIANTS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH SUSCEPTIBILITY TO LOFGREN’S SYNDROME IN PATIENTS WITH SARCOIDOSIS
K Bogunia-Kubik, E Jaskula, A Wojtowicz, A Lange (Wroclaw)
P120 CCR5 GENE POLYMORPHISM AFFECT THE RISK OF GVHD AFTER HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FROM ALTERNATIVE DONOR - POLISH DONOR-RECIPIENT STUDY GROUP
K Bogunia-Kubik, S Mizia, M Polak, A Gronkowska, J Nowak, S Kyrcz-Krzemien, M Markiewicz, M Dzierzak-Mietla, W Olchowy, A Koclega, M Sobczyk-Kruszelnicka, M Sedzimirska, K Suchnicki, D Duda, J Lange, M Mordak-Domagala, J Werkun, K Koscinska, W Jedrzejczak, T Torosian, K Halaburda, B Kaczmarek, P Rybarczyk, K Sepkowska, A Hellmann, A Kucharska, J Kowalczyk, K Drabko, K Warzocha, A Tomaszewska, R Mika-Witkowska, A Dlugokecka, J Gozdzik, A Mordel, A Lange (Wroclaw)
P121 INVESTIGATION OF SUSPECTED IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA REVEALS A HETEROZYGOUS GPIBBETA MUTATION.
A Poles, G Lucas, A Green (Bristol)
P122 DETERMINATION OF HYPER-, NORMO- OR HYPO- SECRETING HLA-G POPULATIONS FROM THE HLA-G HAPLOTYPES.
J Di Cristofaro, C Frassati, A Basire, D El Moujally, C Picard (Marseille)
P123 APPLICATION OF A RECOMMENDED NOMENCLATURE TO THE HLA MICROSATELLITE LOCI D6S2972, D6S2792 (TNFA), D6S273 AND DQIV
E Dauber, S Wenda, E Schwartz-Jungl, B Glock, WR Mayr (Vienna)
Poster Group No 5 - Solid Organ Transplantation
P124 RARE HLA ALLELES IN RENAL TRANSPLANT CANDIDATES.
G Ozzella, E Poggi, M Carducci, L Mazzitelli, V Imbroglini, D Adorno, A Piazza (Rome)
P125 COMPARISON OF THE VIRTUAL CROSSMATCH VERSUS ACTUAL CROSSMATCH IN THE AUSTRIAN PAIRED KIDNEY EXCHANGE PROGRAM
SJ Fidler, G Bohmig, G Fischer, FT Christiansen, P Ferrari (Perth)
P126 THE EFFECT OF THERAPEUTIC ANTIBODIES ON ANTI-HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN ANTIBODY MONITORING BY BEAD BASED LUMINEX TECHNOLOGY
H Wiederschein, T Bösl, M Arnold, BM Spriewald, G Katja (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
P127 PRETREATMENT OF SERA BY HEAT, DITHIOTREITOL (DTT) OR SIMPLE DILUTION LEADS TO MORE PLAUSIBLE RESULTS IN ANTIBODY DETECTION BY BEAD ARRAY ASSAYS
I Faé, D Kriks, C Duregger, WR Mayr, GF Fischer (Vienna)
P128 USE OF MICROBEAD ARRAY MEDIAN FLOURESCENT VALUES TO PREDICT CROSSMATCH TEST OUTCOME IN RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS
JE Worthington, AJ Barker, AJ Robson, S Martin (Manchester)
P129 PRE-TRANSPLANT NON-CYTOTOXIC ANTI-HLA ANTIBODIES PREDICT MULTIPLE ADVERSE EVENTS AFTER HEART TRANSPLANTATION.
A Bontadini, L Potena, S Iannelli, F Fruet, O Leone, F Barberini, M Nardozza, M Masetti, G Magnani, F Grigioni, A Branzi (Bologna)
P130 LUMINEX MFI VALUES AND ANTIBODY LEVELS IN HIGHLY SENSITISED PATIENTS: ISSUES FOR ANTIBODY REMOVAL STRATEGIES
F Partheniou, C Romaines, RK Pengilley, V Carter, WM Howell (Newcastle upon Tyne)
P131 LONG-TERM CLINIC EFFECTS OF ANTIBODIES AGAINST HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGENS DETECTED BY FLOW CYTOMETRY IN THE FIRST YEAR AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANTATION
TK Ayna, HS Ciftci, YK Caliskan, A Turkmen, M Gurtekin (Istanbul)
P132 OPTIMIZATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A FLOW CYTOMETRIC ASSAY FOR DETECTION OF COMPLEMENT FIXING AND NON-FIXING ANTIBODIES UNDER ROUTINE LABORATORY CONDITIONS
M Alheim, D Hauzenberger, A Wikström (Stockholm)
P133 HLA-REACTIVE ANTIBODIES IN LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
C Cryer, D Turner, M Akyol, S Falconer, G Oniscu, P Dyer (Edinburgh)
P134 LUNG TRANSPLANTATION IN PATIENTS WITH PRE TRANSPLANT DONOR SPECIFIC ANTI HLA ANTIBODIES
C Suberbielle, O Brugiere, G Thabut, C Gautreau, D Charron, F Parquin, M Stern, H Mal (Paris)
P135 ONE YEAR EXPERIENCE OF THE AUSTRALIAN PAIRED KIDNEY EXCHANGE (AKX) PROGRAM
SJ Fidler, G Tassone, L D'Orsogna, C Woodroffe, P Ferrari (Perth)
P136 ARE C1Q ASSAYS ON SINGLE ANTIGEN BEADS MORE PREDICTIVE OF AAMR THAN IGG CLASSICAL ASSAYS IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION ?
A Devys, S Castagnet, S Cury, L Foucher, M Lino, G Blancho, A Cesbron (Nantes)
P137 SOLUBLE HLA COUPLED LUMINEX BEADS
R Buchli, RS VanGundy, RD McAdams, WH Hildebrand (Oklahoma City, OK)
P138 PREDICTING FLOW CYTOMETRY CROSSMATCHES BASED ON LUMINEX MFI VALUES
AG Vittoraki, DA Skoumi, MD Apostolaki, MG Athanasopoulou, G Georgoulia, AG Iniotaki, GS Paterakis (Athens)
P139 CORRELATION OF POSITIVE T/B CELL FLOW CROSSMATCH AND DONOR SPECIFIC HLA ANTIBODY DETECTED BY SINGLE ANTIGEN LUMINEX
J Downing, P Dunn (Auckland)
P140 EVALUATION OF C1Q-SCREEN AND CLEAN BEADS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF PATIENTS AWAITING RENAL TRANSPLANTATION
CL Taylor, D Keane, DP Keegan, D O'Neill, K Khalib, J Gooi, M Keogan (Dublin)
P141 PREDICTIVE VALUE OF PRETRANSPLANT VIRTUAL CROSSMATCHING USING LUMINEX SINGLE ANTIGEN ON HUMORAL REJECTION AFTER LUNG TRANSPLANTATION
C Gautreau, C Suberbielle, M Colombat, M Carmagnat, M Stern, D Charron (Paris)
P142 EARLY POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS WITH PRE-EXISTING NON-DONOR-SPECIFIC HLA ANTIBODIES
NV Borovkova, NV Doronina, RV Storozhev (Moscow)
P143 NOT ALL ANTI- MICA ANTIBODIES ARE DETECTED BY A FLOW CYTOMETRIC ENDOTHELIAL CROSS MATCH TEST .
S Cury, A McIroy, M Cheneau, A Devys, A Cesbron (Nantes)
P144 A COMPARISON OF LUMINEX LABSCREEN MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX CLASS I-RELATED CHAIN A (MICA) SINGLE ANTIGEN BEADS (ONE LAMBDA, INC.) AND LIFECODES LSA-MIC BEADS(GEN-PROBE TRANSPLANT DIAGNOSTICS, INC) FOR MICA ANTIBODY DEFINITION
SA Jones, AJ Robson, KV Poulton, S Martin (Manchester)
P145 ASSESSMENT OF DONOR SPECIFIC HLA ANTIBODIES IN KIDNEY RECIPIENT TREATED WITH RITUXIMAB: 11 CASE REPORTS
K Khoy, F Dauny, B Bardy, P Malvezzi, D Masson (Grenoble)
P146 DO ALL VADS INCREASE ALL HLA ANTIBODIES? THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE (VAD) TYPE AND THE CLASS OF HLA ANTIBODY ALLOSENSITIZATION
M Askar, A Zhang, A Nowacki, L Klingman, M Mastroianni, J Gatto, P Reville, S Bakdash, N Smedira, R Starling, G Gonzalez-Stawinski (Cleveland)
P147 ALLELE-SPECIFIC ANTIBODY RESPONSE AGAINST DRB3*03 IN A DRB3*02 POSITIVE INDIVIDUAL: A CASE STUDY
J Vanderlocht, CE Voorter, MH Christiaans, MG Tilanus (Maastricht)
P148 POOR CORRELATION BETWEEN FLOW CROSSMATCHING AND LUMINEX DETECTED HLA ANTIBODIES: THE IMPACT OF ANTIBODIES TO DENATURED HLA ANTIGENS
OA Nneke, ML Rose, JD Smith (Harefield)
P149 ASSOCIATION OF ANTI-VIMENTIN ANTIBODY LEVELS WITH CLINICAL AND LABORATORY PARAMETERS AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANTATION.
C Kekik, GE Karahan, Y Caliskan, S Temurhan, H Bakkaloglu, A Turkmen, MS Sever, FS Oguz (ISTANBUL)
P150 CD28 AND KIR2D RECEPTORS AS SENSORS OF THE IMMUNE STATUS IN HEART AND LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
RM Blanco-García, MR López-Álvarez, B Las Heras-Ferre, S Soriano-Díaz, IP Garrido, G Salgado-Cecilia, JA Campillo, JM Bolarín, I Legaz, M Muro, MV Martínez-Sánchez, DA Pascual-Figal, MR Álvarez-López, M Miras, A Minguela (El Palmar. Murcia)
P151 RARE CLASS I HLA ALLELES FOUND BY SEQUENCE BASED TYPING IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANTED PATIENTS
H Alves, S Oliveira, C Lima, M Peixoto, M Dias, F Mendes, S Tafulo (Porto)
P152 CELLULAR IMMUNE MONITORING IN PEDIATRIC HEART TRANSPLANTATION: CORRELATION WITH INFECTION AND REJECTION
M Israeli, T Ben-Gal, N Zucker, V Yaari, E Birk, T Klein (Petach-Tikva)
P153 EFFECT OF CYP3A5 GENE POLYMORPHISMS ON THE LEVELS OF TACROLIMUS IN TURKISH RENAL TRANSPLANT PATIENTS
HS Ciftci, YK Caliskan, I Guney, TK Ayna, H Bakkaloglu, I Nane, AE Aydin, A Turkmen, M Gurtekin (Istanbul)
P154 TREATMENT OF REFRACTORY ANTIBODY MEDIATED REJECTION WITH ECULIZUMAB IN AN ADULT WITH COMBINED LIVER AND SMALL BOWEL TRANSPLANTATION
C Suberbielle, O Corcos, D Cazals Hatem, A Hertig, M Carmagnat, D Charron, Y Panis, F Joly (Paris)
P155 THE FREQUENCIES OF HLA ANTIBODY SPECIFICITIES IN THAI KIDNEY TRANSPLANT PATIENTS
S Vejbaesya, P Luangtrakool, C Sermduangprateep (Bangkok)
P156 HLA ANTIBODIES IN AN UNTRANSFUSED MALE POSSIBLY GENERATED BY EXPOSURE TO BLOOD FROM BARE KNUCKLE CAGE FIGHTING
D Lowe, D Briggs, S Daga, N Krishnan, R Hamer, D Zehnder, R Higgins (Birmingham)
P157 MONITORING OF DONOR SPECIFIC ANTI-HLA ANTIBODIES (DSA) IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION PATIENTS
R Bardi, S Ben Boujemaa, C Kallala, S Ayed, M Makhlouf, T Ben Romdhane, M Bécha, E Abderrahim, T Ben Abdallah, Y Gorgi (Tunis)
P158 LUMINEX SOLID PHASE TESTING IMPROVES IDENTIFICATION OF NON- SENSITIZED TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS RESULTING IN BETTER GRAFT FUNCTION
R Cirocco, L Biondi, M Moritz (Allentown, PA)
P159 DSA IN THE ABSENCE OF POSITIVE FLOW CROSS MATCH CAN PREDICT REJECTION PROCESS IN THE TRANSPLANTED KIDNEY: A CASE REPORT.
S Alqurashi, K Alsaad, A Alsayyari, D Jawdat, AH Hajeer (Riyadh)
P160 INCREASED RENAL TRANSPLANTS FOR SENSITIZED RECIPIENTS FOLLOWING VIRTUAL CROSSMATCH INTRODUCTION: ONE CENTER’S EXPERIENCE
R Cirocco, L Biondi, M Moritz (Allentown, PA)
P161 UNCOMMON HLA ASSOCIATION IN RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS.
G Ozzella, E Poggi, V Imbroglini, L Mazzitelli, M Carducci, D Adorno, A Piazza (Rome)
P162 DEVELOPMENT OF A SIMPLE AND RAPID PCR BASED TECHNIQUE FOR CYTOCHROME P450 3A5 GENOTYPING
DA Sage, SK Hemmatpour, N Botha, IA MacPhee (London)
P163 ELIMINATION OF NON-SPECIFIC REACTIVITY OF SERA IS A CONSIDERATION IN INTERPRETING SOLID PHASE ANTIBODY DATA
AL Lobashevsky, NG Higgins, KM Rosner (Indianapolis)
P164 ALTRUISTIC UNBALANCED PAIRED KIDNEY EXCHANGE : WILLINGNESS TO PARTICIPATE IN ITALY.
D Focosi, J Bronzoni, F Vistoli, M Barsotti, F Scatena, U Boggi (Pisa)
P165 UPREGULATION OF SOLUBLE HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN-G AFTER HEART TRANSPLANTATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY
RM Blanco-García, MR López-Álvarez, C Botella, B Las Heras, S Soriano, MV Martínez-Sánchez, G Salgado-Cecilia, JA Campillo, JM Bolarín, L Gimeno, M Muro, DA Pascual-Figal, IP Garrido, MR Álvarez-López, M Miras, A Minguela (El Palmar. Murcia)
P166 MFI PREDICITVE VALUES OF ANTI-HLA-C ANTIBODIES DETECTED BY SINGLE ANTIGEN BEADS LUMINEX SOLID PHASE METHOD
AL Lobashevsky, NG Higgins, KM Rosner (Indianapolis)
P167 ARTIFICALLY POSITIVE CROSSMATCHES NOT LEADING TO THE REFUSAL OF KIDNEY DONATIONS DUE TO THE USAGE OF ADEQUATE DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS
A Wahle, G Schlaf, WW Altermann (Halle)
P168 ARE PLASMA LEVELS OF SCD30 A PREDICTIVE PRE-TRANSPLANT OR POST-TRANSPLANT PARAMETER FOR SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION, AS RENAL TRANSPLANTATION? A TUNISIAN EXPERIENCE
R Bardi, K Ayed, T Ben Abdallah, E Abderrahim, Y Gorgi (Tunis)
P169 PROPOSALS TO IMPROVE HIGHLY ALLOIMMUNIZED PATIENTS ACCESS TO KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION
C Poli, M Leforestier, N Paint, A Devys, M Hourmant, A Cesbron (Nantes)
P170 PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION IN NAPLES FROM 2000 TO 2006
A Picascia, P Giannattasio, V Grimaldi, S Federico, M Santangelo, A Casamassimi, C Napoli (Naples)
P171 CLINICAL RELEVANCE OF LUMINEX SINGLE ANTIGEN ANTIBODIES IN CARDIOTHORACIC TRANSPLANTATION
D Keegan, C Coleman, D O'Neill, K Mary (Dublin)
P172 A TALE OF FIVE KIDNEYS AND ONE HEART TRANSPLANTS.
D Focosi, V Perrone, ML Mariotti, F Scatena, U Boggi, D Cantarovich (Pisa)
P173 HLA GENE AND HAPLOTYPE FREQUENCY IN SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS AND DONORS OF NORTH INDIA
M Chowdhry, RN Makroo, P Bhadauria, M Mishra, R tyagi, A Fauzdar, P Srivastava (New Delhi)
P174 INCREASED CD103+ T LYMPHOCYTES IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS WITH GOOD STABLE GRAFT FUNCTION
AG Vittoraki, GS Paterakis, GN Oudatzis, EL Agathokleous, PC Kiousi, JI Boletis, AG Iniotaki (Athens)
P175 PRETRANSPLANT C1Q FIXING HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN ANTIBODIES AND HUMORAL REJECTIONS IN PATIENTS AFTER LIVING KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION
FM Heinemann, A Heinold, O Witzke, A Kribben, A Paul, PA Horn, M Lindemann (Essen)
P176 SPONTANEOUS MODULATION OF HLA SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES FOLLOWING EARLY RESPONSES IN HLA ANTIBODY INCOMPATIBLE TRANSPLANTATION.
D Lowe, D Briggs, D Zehnder, S Daga, N Krishnan, R Hamer, R Higgins (Birmingham)
P177 INCREASED PRESENCE OF COMPLEMENT FIXING IGG ISOTYPES ASSOCIATES WITH ACUTE REJECTION IN ANTIBODY INCOMPATIBLE TRANSPLANTATION.
D Lowe, N Khovanova, D Zehnder, R Higgins, D Briggs (Birmingham)
P178 INDUCTION OF CIRCULATING ENDOTHELIAL CELLS (CECS) AND CIRCULATING PROGENITOR CELLS (CPCS) AFTER POLYCLONAL ANTITHYMOCYTE GLOBULIN (ATG) THERAPY IN LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
C Fabritius, D Stauch, A Yayahzadeh, A Pascher, P Neuhaus, J Pratschke, K Kotsch (Innsbruck)
P179 RELEVANCE OF “LUMINEX-ALONE” DETECTED PRE-EXISTING HLA ANTIBODIES IN LUNG TRANSPLANTATION
LB Bungener, E van den Boomgaard, T Jongsma, SP Lems, C Roozendaal, AJ Lambeck, W van der Bij, EA Verschuuren, BG Hepkema (Groningen)
P180 CORRELATION OF CLASS I AND CLASS II DONOR SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES TO OCCURRENCE OF REJECTION EPISODES IN RENAL TRANSPLANT PATIENTS
J Grant, R Fernando, A Karasu, G Turakhia, G Shirling, K Latham, H Stephens (London)
P181 DELETERIOUS IMPACT OF HLA-DRB1 ALLELE MISMATCH IN SENSITIZED RECIPIENTS OF KIDNEY RETRANSPLANTS
A Heinold, G Opelz, B Döhler, C Unterrainer, S Scherer, A Ruhenstroth, H Tran (Heidelberg)
P182 C1Q-FIXING HLA ANTIBODIES AND KIDNEY GRAFT OUTCOME.
A Piazza, D Caputo, E Poggi, G Ozzella, R Cremona, A Manfreda, C Palombi, D Adorno (Rome)
P183 THE KILLER-CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN-LIKE RECEPTOR (KIR) GENOTYPE CORRELATES WITH ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE IN THE EARLY POST- LIVER TRANSPLANTATION PERIOD
C Fabritius, K Kunert, S Diana, A Yayahzadeh, W Faber, J Pratschke, K Kotsch (Innsbruck)
P184 IMPACT OF SOLID PHASE DE NOVO DONOR SPECIFIC HLA- ANTIBODIES ON SERUM CREATININE IN PATIENTS AFTER KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION
T Kauke, J Reichelt, A Habicht, U Schönermarck, M Stangl, M Fischereder, M Guba, R Henschler, M Spannagl, A Dick (Munich)
P185 PATIENTS WITH PRE-TRANSPLANT DSA WHO HAVE A RISE IN MFI OR DEVELOP A NEW DSA POST TRANSPLANT HAVE POOR LONG TERM OUTCOME
SJ Fidler, J Dey, A Irish, FT Christiansen (Perth)
P186 CXCL10 AS A PREDICTOR OF ACUTE REJECTION AFTER HEART TRANSPLANTATION
L Kolesar, E Slimackova, K Janatova, T Gazdic, E Honsova, I Netuka, I Malek, A Slavcev (Prague)
P187 CARDIAC STEM CELLS: ALTERNATIVE THERAPY FOR HEART FAILURE
L Lauden, W Boukouaci, R Tamouza, D Charron, R Al-Daccak (Paris)
P188 HLA-DQ ALPHA-CHAIN ALLELE FREQUENCY AND ANTIBODIES IN THE IRISH POPULATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR VIRTUAL CROSSMATCHING
D Keegan, D O'Neill, M Keogan (Dublin)
P189 LUMINEX DONOR-SPECIFIC CROSSMATHCES (LUMXM) AND DONOR-SPECIFIC ANTIBODY (DSA) DETERMINATION BY LUMINEX VS. CDC-CROSSMATHCES (CDC-XM) IN LIVING AND CADAVERIC KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATIONS
A Fylaktou, A Fylaktou, E Sianou, S Lalaga, E Persidou, E Parapanisiou (Thessaloniki)
P190 THE HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN-G 14-BP POLYMORPHISM IS AN INDEPENDENT GENETIC RISK MARKER OF LONG-TERM KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION OUTCOME
R Littera, G Piredda, M Arras, S Lai, F Alba, R Porcella, R Maddi, M Serra, V Loi, P Paganelli, M Valentini, G Caocci, S Orrù, G La Nasa, C Carcassi (Cagliari)
P191 DE NOVO DONOR-SPECIFIC HLA ANTIBODIES ARE PREDICTIVE FOR REJECTION OF INTESTINAL AND MULTIVISCERAL TRANSPLANTS
N Lachmann, UA Gerlach, K Todorova, H Schulze, A Pascher, C Schönemann (Berlin)
P192 IMPACT OF PREFORMED ANTI-HLA DONOR SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES DETECTED BY SINGLE ANTIGEN LUMINEX ASSAY ON KIDNEY TRANSPLANTS PERFORMED WITH NEGATIVE COMPLEMENT DEPENDENT CYTOTOXICITY T AND B CROSSMATCHES
A Holanda-Cavalcanti, EF Campos, PC Grenzi, R de Marco, G Rampim, H Tedesco-Silva, JO Medina-Pestana, M Gerbase-DeLima (São Paulo)
P193 SOLUBLE HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN-G LEVEL IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT PATIENTS
J Krongvorakul, S Kantachuvesiri, A Ingsathit, T Mongkolsuk, P Kitpoka, D Thammanichanond (Bangkok)
P194 UP-REGULATION OF THE ANTI-APOPTOTIC GENE BCL2 IN PRE-IMPLANTATION BIOPSIES CONFERS PROTECTION AGAINST DELAYED GRAFT FUNCTION
A Goncalves-Primo, TB Mourão, V Andrade-Oliveira, EF Campos, JO Medina-Pestana, H Tedesco-Silva, M Gerbase-DeLima (São Paulo)
P195 WHY IS HLA-C LESS IMMUNOGENIC THAN HLA-A AND -B?
II Doxiadis, GW Haasnoot, FH Claas (Leiden)
P196 BIOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE OF LUMINEX CROSSMATCH: A ONE CENTRE STUDY OF 117 KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATIONS
EG Lazarova, A Lemy, M Andrien, D Abramowicz, M Toungouz (Brussels)
P197 SPECIFIC REMOVAL AND RECOVERY OF ANTIBODIES TO HLA-DR11 FROM PATIENT PLASMA USING AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY
C McMurtrey, D Lowe, R Buchli, R VanGundy, S Daga, S Cate, S Osborn, A Mojsilovic, W Bardet, JA Duty, P Stastny, D Briggs, D Zehnder, R Higgins, W Hildebrand (Oklahoma City)
P198 CLINICAL EVALUATION OF THE CROSSMATCH USING TIE-2 POSITIVE (PRECURSOR ENDOTHELIAL) CELLS IN LIVING RENAL TRANSPLANTATION
ML Kafetzi, CA Melexopoulou, AG Vittoraki, AA Siorenta, JN Boletis, II Doxiadis, AG Iniotaki (ATHENS)
P199 THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT OF DE NOVO DONOR SPECIFIC HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN HLA ANTIBODIES (DSA) AFTER LUNG TRANSPLANTATION AND BRONCHIAL BIOPSY HISTOLOGICAL FINDINGS
M Askar, P Revill, L Klingman, A Zhang, J Schold, M Budev, K McCurry, C Farver (Cleveland)
P200 THE CLINICAL RELEVANCE OF LUMINEX DEFINED DONOR SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES AT THE TIME OF TRANSPLANT IN CDC CROSSMATCH NEGATIVE PAEDIATRIC CARDIOTHORACIC PATIENTS
D Rowan, A Gupta, M Burch, M Fenton, P Sinnott (London)
P201 INFLUENCE OF CTLA-4 POLYMORPHISMS ON ACUTE REJECTION ONSET OF CADAVERIC RENAL TRANSPLANTS.
A Canossi, A Aureli, F Delreno, C Cervelli, B Di iulio, V Rizzo, A Famulari, F Pisani, F Papola (L'Aquila)
P202 LUMINEX ANTIBODY THRESHOLD TO MATCH DONOR-RECIPIENT PAIRS USING VIRTUAL CROSSMATCH IN KIDNEY PAIRED DONATION
SJ Fidler, G Tassone, L D'Orsogna, C Woodroffe, P Ferrari (Perth)
P203 INCREASED RISK OF SEVERE HEPATITIS C VIRUS RECURRENCE AFTER LIVER TRANSPLANTATION IN PATIENTS WITH A T ALLELE OF IL28B RS12979860
E Cisneros, I Baños, M Citores, A Duca, C Salas, A Noblejas, M Cañizares, I Millán, V Cuervas-Mons, C Vilches (Majadahonda)
P204 RENAL TRANSPLANTATION IN THE PRESENCE OF ANTI-HLA ANTIBODIES
DL Roelen, AT Roswhani, SH Brand-Schaaf, J van de Wetering, J Roodnat, SY Stein, W Weimar, FH Claas (Leiden)
P205 THIRD-PARTY RED-CELL TRANSFUSION IN THE FIRST 30 DAYS AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANTATION IN PATIENTS WITH DSA IS ASSOCIATED WITH ANTIBODY-MEDIATED REJECTION (AMR).
SJ Fidler, A Irish, FT Christiansen, W Lim, P Ferrari, C Witt (Perth)
P206 POST-TRANSPLANT SERUM NEOPTERIN AS A PREDICTOR OF ACUTE RENAL ALLOGRAFT REJECTION
R Jain, CL Adams, BS Carey, KY Wong, S Shaw, WY Tse, ER Kaminski (Plymouth)
P207 COMPARISON OF TIME ON THE CADAVERIC KIDNEY DONOR WAITLIST VERSUS TIME ON THE KIDNEY PAIRED DONATION REGISTRY IN THE AUSTRALIAN PROGRAM
SJ Fidler, L D'Orsogna, C Woodroffe, P Ferrari (Perth)
P208 CLINICAL RELEVANCE OF EARLY DETECTION OF HLA DONOR-SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES AFTER LUNG TRANSPLANTATION
C Suberbielle, J Devaquet, M Stern, M Colombat, C Gautreau, D Charron, F Parquin (Paris)
P209 THE DEVELOPMENT OF A VIRTUAL CROSSMATCH PROCESS FOR RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS.
SL Jacobs, SB Carey, CL Adams, ER Kaminski (PLYMOUTH)
P210 HLA-G*01:04 CORRELATES WITH LOWER SURVIVAL AND HIGHER FREQUENCY OF CHRONIC REJECTION AFTER LUNG TRANSPLANTATION
A Basire, J Di Cristofaro, C Frassati, K Papa, A Rousset, C Bouchet, P Thomas, M Reynaud-Gaubert, C Picard (Marseille)
P211 LUMINEX DETECTED DONOR SPECIFIC HLA ANTIBODY MFI LEVELS AS PREDICTORS OF RISK FOR SURVIVAL AFTER CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION; IMPLICATIONS FOR NEW GUIDELINES.
AJ Danskine, ML Rose, JD Smith (Harefield)
P212 HLAMATCHMAKER ANALYSIS REVEALS THE COMPLEXITY AND EVOLUTION OF THE HLA CLASS II MISMATCHED EPLETS RESPONSIBLE FOR A HUMORAL REJECTION
N Froelich, V Renner, A Mathern, M Woehl, D Hanau, A Parissiadis (Strasbourg)
P213 NON-COMPLEMENT FIXING ANTIBODIES - DISCIPLINA ERUDITUS
SJ Fidler, M Hodmon, P Brescia, M Thomas, W Lim, FT Christiansen (Perth)
P214 EPITOPES ON MISMATCHED DQ HLA IS THE MOST IMMUNOGENIC EPITOPES IN DE NOVO HLA INDUCED ANTIBODY MEDIATED REJECTION
KA Almeshari, A Pall, A Chaballout, H El Gamal, H Almana, F Alzayer, N Abaalkhail, M Al Talhi (Riyadh)
P215 VARIATION OF INTER-INDIVIDUAL HLA EXPRESSION INFLUENCES HLA-SPECIFIC CYTOTOXICITY AND MAY IMPACT TRANSPLANTATION-RELEVANT DECISIONS
G Hönger, N Krähenbühl, S Schaub, C Hess (Basel)
P216 CLINICAL SCALE REMOVAL OF CLASS I HLA-SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES FROM HUMAN PLASMA
D Lowe, C McMurtrey, D Zehnder, S Cate, R Buchli, R VanGundy, D Mitchell, S Daga, D Briggs, W Hildebrand, R Higgins (Birmingham)
P217 DECONVOLUTION OF ANTI-HLA ANTIBODY REACTION PATTERNS USING SOLUBLE HLA-LINKED SEPARATION DEVICES
R Buchli, RS VanGundy, MC Eades, S Lee, WH Hildebrand (Oklahoma City, OK)
P218 THE APPEARANCE OF EXCLUSIVELY ANTI-HLA-DQALPHA1 ANTIBODIES FOLLOWING ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION IS NOT DELETERIOUS
D Hanau, N Froelich, V Renner, A Mathern, S Caillard, B Moulin, M Woehl, R Kessler, E Epailly, A Parissiadis (Strasbourg)
P219 THE DIFFERENTIAL IMMUNOGENICITY OF HLA MISMATCHES LEADS TO A DISTURBANCE OF THE HARDY WEINBERG EQUILIBRIUM IN HIGHLY SENSITIZED PATIENTS.
MD Witvliet, GW Haasnoot, DL Roelen, FH Claas, II Doxiadis (Leiden)
P220 C1Q-FIXING HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN ASSAY IN IMMUNIZED RENAL PATIENTS: CORRELATION BETWEEN LUMINEX SAB-C1Q AND LUMINEX-SAB-IGG
H Martinez, S Llorente, G Salgado, M Lopez, F Boix, A Bosch, R Lopez-Hernandez, JA Campillo, MR Moya, A Minguela, MJ Gonzalez-Soriano, R Alvarez-Lopez, M Muro (Murcia)
P221 RELEVANCE OF PRE-TRANSPLANT DONOR SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES DETECTED BY LUMINEX ONLY ON RENAL GRAFT REJECTION
DL Singleton, AS De'Ath, MT Rees, A Asderakis, D Asprou, C Darke (Pontyclun)
P222 DOES VACCINATION AGAINST PNEUMOCOCCI INDUCE ANTIBODIES AGAINST HLA IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS?
M Lindemann, FM Heinemann, PA Horn, O Witzke (Essen)
P223 QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF HLA-SPECIFIC ANTIBODIES USING SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE
D Lowe, D Briggs, D Zehnder, D Mitchell, R Higgins (Birmingham)
Poster Group No 6 - Mixed Immunogenetics/Miscellaneous
P224 EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF HLA-B*57:01 TYPING FOR PROSPECTIVE ABACAVIR PATIENTS
S Corbin, C Darke (Pontyclun)
P225 EFFICACY OF PATERNAL WHITE CELL IMMUNIZATION (IMMUNOTHERAPY) IN THE TREATMENT OF RECURRENT IVF FAILURES AND HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN (HLA) SIMILARITYPS
PS Dhurandhar, PR Shah, MK Raut (Mumbai)
P226 THE FREQUENCY OF HLA-B*57:01 AND THE RISK OF ABACAVIR HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTIONS IN THE COSTA RICA CENTRAL VALLEY POPULATION
E Arrieta-Bolaños, JA Madrigal, BE Shaw, SGE Marsh, L Salazar-Sánchez (San José)
P227 THE USE OF DITHIOTREITOL OR EDTA MAY IMPROVE THE DETECTION AND SPECIFICATION OF HLA ANTIBODIES BY LUMINEX BEAD ASSAYS
R Kelsch, C Ahlke, D Hebbeler, TM Binder, W Sibrowski (Münster)
P228 CROSSMATCHING IN PLATELET REFRACTORINESS
E Matejkova, HT Bolckova, M Sklenarova, M Zuckova, J Simackova, J Zlabova (Prague)
P229 H63D HOMOZIGOSITY AND IRON OVERLOAD IN HEMOCHROMATOSIS PATIENTS FROM BASQUE POPULATION.
M De Juan Echavarri, A Castiella, E Zapata, L Arriaran, P Otazua, J Fernandez, L Zubiaurre, F Mugica, J Arriola (San Sebastian, Guipuzcoa)
P230 THE SHARING OF KIR GENOTYPES IN HLA-IDENTICAL AND NOT HLA-IDENTICAL PATIENT/SIBLING PAIRS
EG Khamaganova, TP Chugreeva (Moscow)
P231 SEQUENCE-BASED HLA TYPING OF 1,000 YOUNG DONORS AT REGISTRATION ON THE WELSH BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY
J Pepperall, J Johnson, J Street, C Darke (Pontyclun)
P232 SALIVA AS DNA SOURCE FOR HLA SEQUENCE BASED TYPING (SBT): FROM EXTRACTION WITH THE ROCHE® SYSTEM TO HIGH RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES
K Khoy, S Hammerer, F Larnaud, B Bardy, D Masson (Grenoble)
P233 UK NATIONAL EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT SERVICE FOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY AND IMMUNOGENETICS’ (NEQAS FOR H&I) EDUCATIONAL SCHEME - THE FIRST 10 YEARS
S Corbin, J Street, C Darke (Pontyclun)
P234 A CASE REPORT OF TRANSFUSION ACUTE LUNG INJURY
A Varnavidou-Nicolaidou, R Mean, G Stylianou, A Kolnagou, D Georgiou (Nicosia)
P235 CAN B53, B78 BE MISTAKEN AS B35, B51 ON TWO SUBJECTS BY TWO LABORATORIES AFTER BOTH SEROLOGIC AND MOLECULAR TYPING?
D Thomas, P Kawczak, A Smerglia, D Good, R Jurcago, H Eilrich, K Minotti, M Schwarb, A Zhang, M Askar (Cleveland)
P236 ROLE OF THE HLA CLASS III REGION GENES IN KAWASAKI DISEASE
E Maggioli, C Boiocchi, M Cuccia, M Martinetti, S Mannarino, G Bossi (Pavia)
P237 HLA PROFICIENCY TESTING FOR CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPE - SUMMARY OF THE XVII TRIAL
K Bogunia-Kubik, B Wysoczanska, A Lange (Wroclaw)
P238 AMBIGUITY DISTRIBUTION AND ITS RESOLUTION PROJECT FOR HLA-A, B AND DRB1 LOCI BY SEQUENCE BASED TYPING METHOD IN CHINESE HAN POPULATION
H Zou (Shenzhen)
P239 HLA AND MICB ALLELES IN ANCESTRAL HAPLOTYPES IN RUSSIAN AND BASHKIR POPULATIONS OF THE CHELYABINSK REGION OF RUSSIAN SOUTH URALS
MN Vavilov, TA Suslova, AL Burmisrova, MC Chernova, E Lupar, G Tselischev, C Darke (Chelyabinsk)
P240 THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE UK NATIONAL EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT SERVICE FOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY AND IMMUNOGENETICS
S Corbin, C Darke (Pontyclun)
P241 HLA GENE AND HAPLOTYPE FREQUENCIES IN NAGAYBAKS AND THEIR COMPARISON WITH OTHER CHELYABINSK REGION POPULATIONS
TA Suslova, AL Burmisrova, MS Chernova, ON Zaripova, EB Khromova, MN Vavilov, A Gorelova, C Darke (Chelyabinsk)
P242 EVALUATION OF A DONOR SPECIFIC ANTIBODY TEST FOR CONFIRMING COMPATIBILITY OF SELECTED HLA CLASS I TYPED PLATELETS IN REFRACTORY PATIENTS.
M McAvoy, U Paulus, M McQuade (Glasgow)
P243 IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL HLA-DQB1*03 AND HLA-DQB1*06 ALLELES IN BRAZILIAN BONE MARROW DONORS
BZ Piovezan, MM Ramos, J Getz, MF Melo, NF Pereira (Curitiba)
P244 HLA SEQUENCE BASED TYPING: HLA POLYMORPHISM AMONG CORD BLOOD DONORS IN PUBLIC CORD BLOOD BANK, MALAYSIA
L Hwei Yee, A Hassan, S Thrunavukarasou, Z Mohamed, HF Harum, MAB Shamsuddin, SF Malek, R Hassan (Kuala Lumpur)
P245 MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE IN AN H&I LABORATORY: THE NEWCASTLE POST-MILLENIUM EXPERIENCE
PM Mutunga, VD Carter, WM Howell (Newcastle upon Tyne)
P246 ADVERSE REACTIONS IN APHERESIS MULTICOMPONENT (MAC) DONORS: PERCENTAGE OF RISKS
B Damiano, M Sessa, O Pignalosa, T Di Mauro, E Cesario, V Crudele, A Belsito, M Ferriero, B Bibba, F Ziello, I Caiafa, S Conte, A Casamassimi, C Napoli (Naples)
P247 ANALYSIS OF THE SEROLOGICAL REACTIVITY AND HAPLOTYPES OF HLA-B*37:02 ALLELE
A Salman, D Thomas, A Smerglia, G Teresi, J McMichael, M Askar (Cleveland)
P248 DISTRIBUTION OF HLA ALLELES AND HAPLOTYPES IN THE NIGERIAN POPULATION
M Testi, M Battarra, T Galluccio, M Troiano, O Akinyanju, T Wakama, G Lucarelli, M Andreani (Rome)
P249 A NEW FRONT FOR HLA MATCHING ?: THE DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIETHNIC “HAPLOBANK” OF INDUCED PLURIPORTENT STEM CELL LINES
PA Gourraud, L Gilson, A Tomich, M Girard, M Peschanski (San Francisco)
P250 35% OF NORMAL MALE NON-TRANSFUSED BLOOD DONORS HAVE APPARENT HLA ANTIBODIES REACTIVE BY LABSCREEN SINGLE ANTIGEN BEADS
HL Wicks, C Darke (Pontyclun)
P251 THE DISTRIBUTION OF HLA-KIR LIGANDS IN KAWASAKI DISEASE SUPPORTS THE HYPOTHESIS OF AN INFECTIOUS ETIOPATHOGENESIS.
F Garlaschelli, G Corana, M Pietrogrande, P Salice, M Guarene, C Pizzochero, G Bossi, S Mannarino, M Martinetti (Pavia)
P252 CD8+T CELLS CONTROLS METASTATIC PROGRESSION MAINTAINING METASTASES IN LATENCY STATE
I Romero-García, C Garrido, I Linares, A Rodríguez, I Algarra, A Collado, F Garrido, A García-Lora (Granada)
P253 KIR-HLA GENE INTERACTION IN 73 CASES OF CAUCASIAN CHILDREN AFFECTED BY KAWASAKI DISEASE
A Pasi, I Sbarsi, P Salice, M Pietrogrande, R Dellepiane, G Bossi, S Mannarino, M Martinetti (Pavia)
P254 IMPROVE MATCHING OF UNRELATED STEM CELL DONORS AND RECIPIENTS WITH HAPLOTYPE SPECIFIC SNP’S LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL REGION OF THE MHC
HM Hogan, L Candy, DC Sayer (Fremantle)
P255 ORANGUTAN MHC CLASS I: IS THE B LOCUS COMPENSATING FOR THE (PARTIAL) LACK OF C?
CM Heijmans, NG de Groot, LA Guethlein, P Parham, RE Bontrop (Rijswijk)
P256 PECULIAR PATTERN OF REACTIVITY IN HLA CLASS II LUMINEX SINGLE ANTIGEN BEADS ASSAY ASSOCIATED WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS AND WITH HLA-DR3.
R Zavan, PC Grenzi, EF Campos, R de Marco, L Dantas, E Bellintani, M Gerbase-DeLima (São Paulo)
P257 HLA-A*02:06 AND TLR3 SNPS ARE JOINTLY PREDISPOSED WITH MORE THAN AN ADDITIVE EFFECT TO STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME WITH SEVERE OCULAR COMPLICATIONS
M Ueta, K Tokunaga, C Sotozono, H Sawai, G Tamiya, T Inatomi, S Kinoshita (Kyoto)
P258 HIGH DEGREE OF HAPLOTYPE DIVERSITY IN OLIVE BABOONS, A BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH MODEL SPECIES
GG Doxiadis, N de Groot, N Poirier, G Blancho, RE Bontrop (Rijswijk)
P259 FHIT TUMOUR SUPPRESSOR GENE MAINTAINS MHC CLASS I SURFACE EXPRESSION IN TUMOUR CELLS
I Romero-García, C Garrido, I Linares, A Rodríguez, I Algarra, F Garrido, A García-Lora (Granada)
P260 DOWNREGULATION OF MHC CLASS I EXPRESSION DURING REPROGRAMMING OF HUMAN SOMATIC CELLS TOWARDS PLURIPOTENCY
K Stolp, M Zuk, PA Horn, H Klump (Essen)
P261 DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUPER HIGH RESOLUTION SINGLE MOLECULE - SEQUENCE BASED TYPING (SS-SBT) METHOD AT THE 8-DIGIT LEVEL WITHOUT AMBIGUITY FOR HLA CLASS I GENES
S Suzuki, Y Ozaki, E Kikkawa, A Shigenari, A Oka, S Mitsunaga, T Shiina, H Inoko (Isehara, Kanagawa)
P262 IN VITRO GENERATED PCR CROSSOVER PRODUCTS CORRESPOND TO SOME ALLELES IN THE IMGT/HLA DATABASE
CL Holcomb, M Rastrou, TC Williams, D Goodridge, HA Erlich (Pleasanton CA)
P263 SNP SCREENING FOR HLA HAPLOTYPES RELEVANT IN ESTABLISHING A HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL DERIVED CELL BANK
V Robertson, L Murphy, G McVean, P de Sousa, DM Turner (Edinburgh)
P264 FLOW CYTOMETRY-BASED HLA-B57/B58 SCREENING PRIOR TO ABACAVIR PRESCRIPTION
R Stevens, E Coates, E Cook, J Street, C Darke (Pontyclun)
P265 MATERNAL HLA-G -725 G/C/A POLYMORPHISM IS A MORE POWERFUL INDICATOR OF PREGNANCY LOSS THAN HLA-G 14BP INS/DEL.
I Sbarsi, C Badulli, M Zorzetto, A De Silvestri, L Salvaneschi, M Martinetti (Pavia)
P266 A SPECIALIZED TUBE TO MAKE ENRICHMENT OF SPECIFIC CELL SUBSETS FASTER AND EASIER
K McQueen, J Fadum, S Woodside, T Thomas, C Peters (Vancouver)
P267 KIR/LIGAND GENOTYPES AS CANDIDATE BIOMARKERS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF CHRONIC HEPATITIS B INFECTION IN THE BULGARIAN POPULATION
A Georgieva, V Varbanova, K Chernev, D Petrova, M Baleva, E Naumova, A Mihaylova (Sofia)
P268 MHC CLASS II TETRAMER (DR04:06) PREPARATION IN MAMMALIAN EXPRESSION SYSTEM
Y Uchida, H Miyadera, K Tokunaga (Tokyo)
P269 REACTIVITY OF THE “HLA-B27” MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY FD705 AGAINST ‘RARE’ HLA-B*27 PRODUCTS AND ITS LIKELY EPITOPE
J Street, E Coates, C Darke (Pontyclun)
P270 THE GENETIC STUDY ON A RARE INTER-ALLELIC RECOMBINATION OF HLA-C LOCUS IN A CHINESE HAN FAMILY
H Zou, Z Li, S Jin, Z Deng (Shenzhen)
P271 A NEW, RAPID METHOD OF HLA-DP TYPING AND VIRTUAL CROSSMATCH
Z Antovich, R Russnak, N Ly, K Quinto, E King, D Youngs, M Elrefaei, P Warner, F Grumet (San Francisco)
P272 ASSOCIATION OF HLA POLYMORPHISM AND OUTCOMES OF HEPATITIS B VIRUS VACCINATION IN KOREAN INFANTS
E Roh, J Yoon, S Shin (Seoul)
P273 DIFFERENT SELECTION FORCES OPERATING ON DP GENES IN HUMANS VERSUS RHESUS MACAQUES
AJ de Vos-Rouweler, GG Doxiadis, N de Groot, JH Blokhuis, N Otting, RE Bontrop (Rijswijk)
P274 COMBI-CODING ALLOWS FOR EFFICIENT BENCHTOP SEQUENCING OF MHC AND KIR GENES FROM LARGE COHORTS
MK van der Wiel, JH Blokhuis, N de Groot, GG Doxiadis, RE Bontrop (Rijswijk)
P275 RARE HLA ALLELES WITHIN THE CWD GROUPS REDEFINED BY A NEW SBT TYPING STRATEGY
CE Voorter, C Meertens, F Palusci, MG Tilanus (Maastricht)
P276 NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING FOR TCR REPERTOIRE PROFILING: PLATFORM-SPECIFIC LIBRARY PREPARATION AND DATA ANALYSIS
D Bolotin, I Mamedov, O Britanova, I Zvyagin, D Shagin, S Ustyugova, M Turchaninova, S Lukyanov, Y Lebedev, D Chudakov (Moscow)
Poster Group No 7 - Bioinformatics
P277 THE LIMITATIONS OF VARIANT CALLING ALGORITHMS FOR CLASSICAL HLA GENES FROM WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCE DATA.
CJ Cox, A Dilthey, P Newcombe, Z Iqbal, MR Nelson, G McVean (Stevenage)
P278 IMMUNOGENETICS 2.0 : THE BLOG EXPERIENCE
D Focosi (Pisa)
P279 HL7 IMPLEMENTATION OF SILVER STANDARD PRINCIPLES FOR REPORTING HLA TYPING
RP Milius, A Shabo, J Pollack, S Israel, AR Tambur, K Mirfakhraie, JA Hollenbach, SJ Mack, M Maiers (Minneapolis)
P280 ASSIGN-ATF 1.5: SIMPLIFYING THE HIGH THROUGHPUT DETECTION OF DISEASE ASSOCIATED GENETIC VARIANTS
DC Sayer, T Gilchrist, S Hodges, DM Goodridge (Fremantle)
P281 AN XML EXPORT OF THE IMGT/HLA DATABASE
J Robinson, J Pollack, A Walts, J Schneider, R Fritsch, A Barber, J Freeman, M Maiers, SGE Marsh (London)
P282 FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO EFFICIENT DONOR PROCUREMENT
C Müller, U Feldmann, W Bochtler, H Eberhard, S Morsch, A Schmidt (Ulm)
P283 A PROGRAM FOR AUTOMATED POPULATION ANALYSES USING HLA-NET GUIDELINES
J Nunes, E Riccio, S Buhler, SP Fonseca, B Vidan-Jeras, A Little, J Tiercy, G Fischer, C Vangenot, F Gonzalez-Galarza, J Martorell, D Mendonça, A Sanchez-Mazas (Geneva)
P284 SHANNON’S ENTROPY AS A MEASURE OF IN SILICO HLA TYPING AMBIGUITY REDUCTION USING POPULATION HAPLOTYPE FREQUENCIES
V Paunic, L Gragert, A Madbouly, J Freeman, M Maiers (Minneapolis)
P285 THE RARE HLA ALLELES PROJECT: EXTENDING THE NUMBER OF RESOURCES AND BIOINFORMATICS ANALYSIS
FF Gonzalez Galarza, SGE Marsh, M Fernandez-Vina, S Mack, J Hollenbach, D Middleton (Liverpool)
P286 AUTOMATED HLA HAPLOTYPE IDENTIFICATION WITH TYPING INFERENCE FROM EXTENDED FAMILIES
N Leahy, M Halagan, L Gragert, A Madbouly, M Maiers (Minneapolis)
P287 WHEN IS ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE, EVIDENCE OF ABSENCE? USE EQUIVALENCE-BASED ANALYSIS IN GENETIC FOR SO CALLED NEGATIVE ASSOCIATION STUDY : EXAMPLES IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOR THE KIF1B AND IFNIH1-GCA-KCNH7 LOCI AND MSGB ANALYSIS
PA Gourraud, V Bakthavachalam (San Francisco)
P288 IDENTIFICATION OF CORE HLA CLASS I ALLELES
J Robinson, LA Guethlein, JA Halliwell, N Cereb, SGE Marsh, P Parham (London)
P289 A PUBLIC DATABASE FOR STORING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN DISEASE AND KIR GENES
FF Gonzalez Galarza, D Middleton, AR Jones (Liverpool)
P290 ANALYSIS OF EXTENDED POLYMORPHISMS IN THE EXONS OF HLA AND KIR GENES: THE POLYMORPHIC INDEX OF THE PEPTIDE BINDING GROOVE AND BEYOND.
M Groeneweg, CE Voorter, M Maiers, MG Tilanus (Maastricht)
P291 VALIDATION OF THE 5-LOCUS MATCHING PREDICTIONS OF OPTIMATCH®
W Bochtler, H Eberhard, U Feldmann, H Rist, C Müller (Ulm)
P292 HAP-E SEARCH: HAPLOTYPE-ENHANCED SEARCH IMPLEMENTATION AND VALIDATION OF A HAPLOTYPE FREQUENCY-BASED SEARCH ALGORITHM
J Pingel, J Hofmann, DM Baier, UV Solloch, A Grathwohl, U Ehninger, SF Winter, AH Schmidt, G Ehninger (Tuebingen)
Poster Group No 8 - Population Genetics/Anthropology
P293 HLA DIVERSITY OF THE KASHMIRI POPULATION FROM NORTH INDIA
M Mourya, U Kanga, M Bashir, A Saxena, A Zargar, NK Mehra (New Delhi)
P294 GENOMIC DIVERSITY OF HLA IN THE PUNJABI KHATRI POPULATION FROM NORTH INDIA
A Saxena, U Kanga, M Maurya, P Coshic, NK Mehra (New Delhi)
P295 GENOMIC ANALYSIS OF TYPE 1 DIABETES ASSOCIATED HLA HAPLOTYPES IN THREE POPULATION GROUPS FROM INDIA
U Kanga, R Madhavan, M Bashir, A Saxena, M Mourya, N Kumar, A Shastry, A Desai, N Tandon, AH Zargar, V Mohan, NK Mehra (New Delhi)
P296 ASSESSING THE PROBABILITY OF FINDING HLA-COMPATIBLE UNRELATED DONORS FOR BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION IN A BRAZILIAN POPULATION
WA Silva, JC Magalhães, PS Santos, MG Bicalho (Curitiba)
P297 IDENTIFICATION OF FOUR RARE ALLELES IN THE MEXICAN UNRELATED BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY-DONORMO IN MEXICO
A Munguía, C Alaez, H Flores-A, C Gorodezky (Mexico City)
P298 HLA AND METABOLIC PARAMETERS THAT DEFINE OBESITY IN AMERINDIANS FOR THE FIRST TIME
D Rey, M Fernández-Honrado, C Areces, I Arribas, C Coca, M Enríquez-de-Salamanca, S Abd-El-Fatah-Khalil, C Parga-Lozano, A Arnaiz Villena (Madrid)
P299 GENETIC PROFILE CHARACTERIZATION OF 10 X-STRS IN A SAMPLE FROM PARANÁ, BRAZIL.
LAG Kobachuk, M Bicalho, M Malaghini, J da Silva, L Gusmão, M Bicalho (Curitiba)
P300 HLA PROFILE SUPPORTS THE MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN OF ARMENIANS
H Hovhannisyan, A Margaryan (Yerevan)
P301 HLA CLASS I AND CLASS II ALLELE FREQUNCIES AMONG KUWAITI ARAB BLOOD DONORS
RM Ameen, SH Al Shemmari, Y Luqmani, H Maldonado Torres, SGE Marsh (Jabriaya)
P302 THE DISTRIBUTION OF HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN-A, -B, AND -DRB1 ALLELES AND HAPLOTYPES BASED ON HIGH-RESOLUTION GENOTYPING OF 167 FAMILIES FROM JIANGSU PROVINCE, CHINA
J Shen (Nan Jing)
P303 HLA ALLELES AND HAPLOTYPES IN FIVE POLYNESIAN POPULATIONS IN THE NEW ZEALAND BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY
PP Dunn, R Fisher, C Darke, H Blacklock (Auckland)
P304 HOW RARE ARE ‘RARE ALLELES’ IN THE BULGARIAN BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY?
MI Ivanova, T Lukanov, A Georgieva, S Mihailova, A Nedialkova, L Quin, E Naumova (Sofia)
P305 USING HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN TO INFORM ANCESTRY AND HEALTH IN POLYNESIAN AND MAORI POPULATIONS
EH Atan, GK Chambers, PP Dunn, L Hammond, C Selwyn, RA Lea (Wellington)
P306 HLA CLASS I AND CLASS II AND HAPLOTYPES IN THE POPULATION OF VOLGA FEDERAL DISTRICT, RUSSIA.
L Maria, T Natalia, P Igor (Kirov)
P307 HLA PROFILE OF THE SLOVENIAN POPULATION
A Mendez, S Montanic, I Kemperle, EM Riccio, B Vidan-Jeras (Ljubljana)
P308 KIR GENOTYPES IN GEORGIAN POPULATION
K Gendzekhadze, G Kamkamidze, A Oki, D Senitzer (Duarte)
P309 HLA-DRB1 CLASS II GENES IN MEXICAN AMERINDIAN MAZAHUAS: GENES AND LANGUAGES DO NOT CORRELATE
A Arnaiz Villena, S Abd-El-Fatah-Khalil, C Parga-Lozano, D Rey, C Areces, P Peñaranda, M Enríquez-de-Salamanca, J Granados, G Vargas-Alarcón (Madrid)
P310 SHARING SAMPLES, DATA, AND IDEAS: WHEN HISTORY SHAPES THE FUTURE IN HUMAN IMMUNOGENETICS
A Cambon-Thomsen, L Mabile, M Thomsen (Toulouse)
P311 HLA ALLELE AND HAPLOTYPE FREQUENCIES IN QATAR
MY Elkhalifa, N Al-Shaibi, A Fadlalla, A Al-Nabet, TW Alkuwari, SM Saleh, SS Taha, KA Jasim (Doha)
P312 DISTRIBUTION OF HUMAN LEUCOCYTE ANTIGEN-A, -B AND -DR ALLELES AND HAPLOTYPES AT HIGH RESOLUTION IN THE POPULATION FROM JIANGSU PROVINCE OF CHINA
J Shen (Nan Jing)
P313 A META-ANALYSIS OF MHC DIVERSITY IN PRIMATES
C Vangenot, A Sanchez-Mazas (Geneva)
P314 COMBINATORIAL DIVERSITY OF HLA CLASS I AND KIR IS THE FOUNDATION FOR IMMUNE IDENTITY IN AFRICANS
PJ Norman, BM Henn, N Nemat-Gorgani, B Garizedeh, KA Koram, P Parham (Stanford)
P315 UNDERESTIMATED HLA-DPB1 LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIA: RESULTS FROM A LARGE SAMPLE OF OVER 18,000 GERMAN STEM CELL DONORS
J Hofmann, A Werzner, J Pingel, U Solloch, S Winter, A Schmidt, G Ehninger (Tuebingen)
P316 DEMOGRAPHIC SIMULATIONS EXPLAIN CLINAL PATTERNS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF SOME HLA LINEAGES AND ALLELES IN EAST ASIA
D Di, M Currat, A Sanchez-Mazas (Geneva)
P317 KIR POLYMORPHISM IN SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS
EJ Santos, EJ Santos, MH Maia, A Maia, F Lima, JM Vasconcelos, L Sena, R Single, MP Martin, M Carrington (Belém)
P318 HLA-DQA1 AND -DQB1 FREQUENCIES AND ASSOCIATIONS IN MOZAMBIQUE AND PROBABLE HLA HAPLOTYPES
J Brown, T Chowdhury, AO Mocumbi, CJ Brown (London)
P319 IS VIETNAMESE HLA DIVERSITY EXPLAINED BY HISTORY OR NATURAL SELECTION?
M Riccio, B Kervaire, J Nunes, J Tiercy, A Sanchez-Mazas (Geneva)
P320 DISTRIBUTION OF KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN-LIKE RECEPTORS AND THEIR HLA-C LIGANDS IN THAI BLOOD DONORS
P Kitpoka, D Thammanichanond, C Tammakorn, T Mongkolsuk (Bangkok)
P321 NOVEL ALLELES, FAR FROM THE FINISH LINE
AM Lazaro, J Henry, Y Xiao, J Ng, CK Hurley, PE Posch (Rockville )
P322 DESCRIPTION OF ALLELE LEVEL HLA-DRB4 CONTAINING DRB1-DRB4-DQA1-DQB1 HAPLOTYPES
D Thomas, P Kawczak, P Reville, J McMichael, M Askar (Cleveland)
P323 THE ANALYSIS OF THE SWISS BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY AND ITS APPLICATIONS: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR HANDLING AMBIGUOUS HLA DATA, OPTIMIZING DONOR RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES AND DEFINING RELIABLE REFERENCE DATA PANELS FOR POPULATION GENETICS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY
S Buhler, J Nunes, G Nicoloso, J Tiercy, A Sanchez-Mazas (Geneva)
P324 RESOLUTION OF HLA-DRB1*14:01:01G, DQB1*03:01:01G AND B*44:02:01G AMBIGUITIES IN 6 EUROPEAN POPULATION GROUPS: HIGH VARIABILITY IN THE RELATIVE RATIOS
B Vidan-Jeras, V Dubois, Z Grubic, D Ligeiro, F Poli, S Buhler, J Tiercy (Ljubljana)
P325 CONFIRMATORY TYPING OF 16 RARE ALLELES USING SSOP AND SBT
C Zhu, X Li, Y Zhu, Y Zhang, Y Song (Jinan)
P326 GENE DISTRIBUTION OF KIR GENES IN MEXICAN MESTIZOS FROM THREE DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS OF MEXICO: THE HIGHLANDS, THE WEST(STATE OF JALISCO AND SAN LUIS POTOSI AND SURROUNDINGS)
C Alaez, H Flores-A, F Manzanares, D Senitzer, C Gorodezky (Mexico City)
P327 LAS ALPUJARRAS REGION (SOUTH EAST SPAIN) HLA GENES STUDY: EVIDENCE OF A PROBABLE SUCCESS OF 17TH CENTURY REPOPULATION FROM NORTH SPAIN
J Longás, J Martinez-Laso, D Rey, C Areces, E Gömez-Casado, C Parga-Lozano, F Luna, M Enríquez-de-Salamanca, P Moral, A Arnaiz Villena (Madrid)
P328 DISTRIBUTION OF HLA-A,B,DRB1 AND NON-CLASSICAL MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX CLASS I(MICA) HAPLOTYPES IN CANTONESE
X Ye, X Xu, W Xia, Y Huang, Y Shao (Guangzhou)
P329 A NOVEL HLA-B*51 ALLELE, IDENTIFIED IN THE BRAZILIAN POPULATION
PF Wowk, SB Mattar, M Bicalho (Curitiba )
Poster Group No 9 - Autoimmunity Disease Association and Cancer
P330 POLYMORPHISMS OF TNF MICROSATELLITE MARKER A IN TUNISIAN PEMPHIGUS FOLIACEUS
O Abida, N Mahfoudh, A Kammoun, F Hakim, L Gaddour, A Masmoudi, M Ben Ayed, H Turki, H Makni, H Masmoudi (Sfax)
P331 HLA DRB1*/DQB1* ASSOCIATIONS IN GREEK PATIENTS WITH LATENT AUTOIMMUNE DIABETES IN ADULTS (LADA)
K Tarassi, M Marketou, D Kouniaki, A Tsirogianni, V Kitsiou, T Athanassiades, K Soufleros, P Garoutsou, G Ioannidis, C Papasteriades (Athens)
P332 DATA MINING THE HLA LITERATURE: DISEASE ASSOCIATION STUDIES SINCE THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM
JA Hollenbach (Oakland)
P333 IL-12B GENE POLYMORPHISMS INFLUENCE PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS CLINICAL SUBTYPES IN ROMANIAN POPULATION
OM Popa, E Kriegova, L Popa, P Schneiderova, MI Dutescu, M Bojinca, V Bojinca, C Bara, M Petrek (Olomouc)
P334 HLA AND TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR POLYMORPHISMS IN PATIENTS WITH PROSTATE CANCER
K Stingl, T Hudolin, R Zunec, Z Kastelan, E Goluza, Z Grubic (Zagreb)
P335 LOOP-MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION AS A SCREENING TEST FOR HLA-B*57:01 AND 58:01 IN DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY PREDICTION
S Virakul, P Kupatawintu, P Chaumpluk, T Vilaivan, N Hirankarn (Bangkok)
P336 BLACK PATIENTS OF AFRICAN DESCENT AND HLA-DRB1*1503 FREQUENCY OVERREPRESENTED IN EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA ACQUISITA
P Loiseau, M Busson, F Aucouturier, C Zumelzu, C Le Roux-Villet, M Heller, V Pendaries, N Lièvre, F Pascal, M Brette, S Doan, F Caux, L Laroche, A Petit, D Charron, C Prost-Squarcioni (Paris)
P337 IMPACT OF HLA AND CYTOKINE POLYMORPHISMS ON INHIBITOR DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN WITH SEVERE HAEMOPHILIA A.
I Varela, H Pergantou, K Spanou, M Economou, Z Kapsimali, H Platokouki, O Moraloglou, NA Constantinidou (Athens)
P338 POLYMORPHISM IN THE EXON 8 OF HLA-G IN 73 ITALIAN CHILDREN WITH KAWASAKI DISEASE
A Cremaschi, A Tozzo, C Badulli, R Delle Piane, M Monti, S Mannarino, G Bossi, M Martinetti (Pavia)
P339 EXPRESSION PROFILING OF EXTRACELLULAR SERUM MICRORNAS IN PATIENTS WITH IDIOPATHIC INFLAMMATORY MYOPATHY
M Remakova, M Skoda, M Faustova, J Vencovsky, P Novota (Prague)
P340 HLA DR4 ASSOCIATION WITH INSULIN AUTOIMMUNE SYNDROME IN A PATIENT OF EUROPEAN ORIGIN
PP Dunn, K Nirmalalraj, C Peters (Auckland)
P341 IS THERE A DIRECT FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE HLA-DRB1*15:01 PROMOTER VDRE REGION, VITAMIN D LEVEL AND MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS?
TM Binder, C Schubert, R Kelsch, R Martin, TH Eiermann (Hamburg)
P342 THE HLA GENE COMPLEX IN BOTH AUTOIMMUNE AND NON-AUTOIMMUNE THYROID DISEASE PATIENTS IN SOUTHEAST CHINA JIANGSU PROVINCE PEOPLE
J Shen (Nan Jing)
P343 ROBUST PCR ASSAY FOR THE DETECTION OF HLA-DQ2 AND HLA-DQ8 GENOTYPES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH CELIAC DISEASE
M Penning, A Wijngaard, W Mulder, E Rozemuller (Utrecht)
P344 GENETIC POLYMORPHISMS HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN CLASS II HAPLOTYPES IN HIV INFECTED PATIENTS
J Eglite, A Socnevs, D Kasjko, L Viksna, G Sture (Riga)
P345 RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE HLA ALLELE AND BIPOLAR DISORDERS
J Shen (Nan Jing)
P346 ASSOCIATION OF ERAP1 POLYMORPHISM WITH THE RISK OF ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS IN THE ROMANIAN POPULATION
M Cherciu, M Bojinca, V Bojinca, MI Dutescu, L Ulea, C Bara, L Popa, OM Popa (Bucharest)
P347 ATG16 AUTOPHAGY RELATED 16-LIKE 1 GENE POLYMORPHISM AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO SARCOIDOSIS IN CZECH PATIENTS
F Mrazek, K Staffova, J Marcinkova, M Zurkova, E Kriegova, Z Ambruzova, V Kolek, M Petrek (Olomouc)
P348 THE IMPLICATION OF BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN GENE IN THE GENERATION OF TUMOR ESCAPE PHENOTYPES.
M Bernal, F Ruíz-Cabello, A Concha, A Paschen, F Garrido (Granada)
P349 SNPS ANALYSIS IN PRO-INFLAMMATORY AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE POLYMORPHISMS: TNF-ALPHA, TGF-BETA, IFN-GAMMA, IL-6, IL-12P40, IL-10, IL-1-ALPHA, IL-1-BETA, IL-1R AND IL-1RA IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE (IBD)
R Lopez-Hernandez, M Valdes, JA Campillo, P Martinez, H Salama, A Sanchez-Torres, G Salgado, F Boix, MR Moya, A Minguela, F Carballo, M Miras, MR Alvarez-Lopez, M Muro (Murcia)
P350 MIC GENES POLYMORPHISM IN SQUAMOUS INTRAEPITHELIAL LESIONS IN MEXICAN WOMEN
ME Nieves-Ramírez, PE Alegre-Crespo, MC Tapia-Lugo, ML Segura-León, E Bravo-Flores, ME Pérez-Rodríguez (Mexico City)
P351 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN HLA AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF APLASTIC ANEMIA AND MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME AMONG RUSSIAN CHILDREN IN THE MOSCOW REGION
L Lebedeva, T Pukhlikova, A Chumak, D Stavcev, T Astrelina, M Yakovleva, M Maschan (Moscow)
P352 HLA/KIR TYPES AND THEIR ASSOCIATION WITH IMMUNOLOGICAL PROGRESSION IN HIV INFECTED PATIENTS
MF Fagan, R Hagan, C Bergin, J O'Halloran, J Crowley (Dublin)
P353 EVALUATION OF MICA, HLA-DRB1 AND HLA-DQB1 GENOTYPES IN PATIENTS WITH ULCERATIVE COLITIS
C Kekik, B Pinarbasi, F Akyuz, FS Oguz, K Demir, MN Carin (Istanbul)
P354 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN HLA ALLELES AND JAK2 V617F MUTATION IN POLYCYTHEMIA VERA
F Ozmen, G Goren, D Guc, E Kansu (Ankara)
P355 ASSESSING IMMUNOGENETIC BASIS OF INHERITED RADIORESISTANCE: FOCUS ON HLA CLASS II
KV Utkin, IA Kofiadi, GO Goudima, EI Bateneva, VV Kadochnilova, MN Boldyreva, MF Kiselev, AV Akleev, GA Veremeeva, LP Alexeev (Moscow)
P356 HLA-B*57:01 COMPANION DIAGNOSTIC DETECTION ASSAY BASED ON REAL-TIME PCR AND THE NEXT GENERATION DNA SEQUENCING STRATEGY: PYROSEQUENCING
M Penning, J Adema, A Wijngaard, R Opstelten, W Mulder, E Rozemuller (Utrecht)
P357 THE CORRELATION BETWEEN HLA-B*27 SUBTYPE, A-DRB1, HLA-DQB1 AND ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS IN CHINESE HAN POPULATION
X Li, Y Zhu, Y Zhang, C Yang, C Zhu (Jinan)
P358 ADAPTIVE AND INNATE IMMUNITY GENES - RELEVANCE IN PATHOGENESIS OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
O Mikova, A Angelova, T Lukanov, A Nedialkova, M Ivanova, P Marinov, E Naumova, A Mihaylova (Sofia)
P359 TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS 2, 4 AND 9 SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM AND AMOEBIC LIVER ABSCESS IN MEXICO
O Partida-Rodríguez, EG Hernandez-Hernandez, C Maldonado, ME Nieves-Ramírez, O Valenzuela, UJ Magaña, EA Rascón, T Portillo, L Rojas, E Gonzalez, A Valadez, P Morán, C Ximenez (Mexico City)
P360 STUDY OF KIR GENES IN PORTUGUESE PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS
C Carvalho, A Bettencourt, B Leal, M Fonseca, D Lopes, F Perneta, J Pestana, PP Costa, C Vasconcelos, I Almeida, B Martins (Porto)
P361 HLA-DR-DQ HAPLOTYPES IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY SJÖGREN’S SYNDROME
FG Martinova, MS Pantchovska (Sofia)
P362 MHC CLASS II EXPRESSION ON HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS IN PATIENTS WITH PAROXYSMAL NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA
J Nowak, J Wozniak, E Mendek-Czajkowska, R Mika-Witkowska, A Dlugokecka, A Marosz-Rudnicka, J Kopec-Szlezak (Warsaw)
P363 THE DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIPLE MYELOMA IN THE YOUNG PATIENTS IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PRESENCE KIR3DS1 WITH HLA-BW4 ILE80
IV Sokolova, LN Bubnova, IE Pavlova, SS Bessmeltsev (St.-Petersburg)
P364 EIGHTEEN SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS AND BREAST CANCER RISK IN RUSSIAN POPULATION
EI Bateneva, AA Meshcheryakov, LN Lyubchenko, AA Ragimov, VV Kadochnikova, LA Panischeva, EA Poliakova, DY Trofimov (Moscow)
P365 HLA-DRB1 ALLELE POLYMORPHISMS IN GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY TO COLORECTAL CANCER.
A Aureli, T Del Beato, F Papola, L Franceschilli, P Sileri, N Di Lorenzo, O Buonomo, R Arriga, A Canossi, G Sconocchia (L'Aquila)
P366 IMMNOGENETICS OF HLA-B51 NEGATIVE GERMAN AND TURKISH PATIENTS WITH BEHCET'S DISEASE.
A Kuranov, F Riewerts, I Kötter, J Gamper-Tsigaras, I Steiert, CA Müller (Tübingen)
P367 THE EXPRESSION PATTERNS OF MHC CLASS I MOLECULES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN VISUAL SYSTEM
A Zhang, H Yu, y Shen, F Miao, J Zhang (Nanjing)
P368 ASSOCIATION OF HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN POLYMORPHISM WITH SPONTANEOUS CLEARANCE OF HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN IN QIDONG HAN POPULATION
J Zhang, F Miao, H Sun, N Pan, Y Shen, Y Zhang, W Xie (Nanjing)
P369 A DELETION IN BETA-2-MICROGLOBULIN GENE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR A TOTAL LOSS OF HLA CLASS I EXPRESSION IN A HUMAN PROSTATE CARCINOMA CELL LINE
J Carretero, A del Campo, S Zinchenko, A Moreno, F Ruiz-Cabello, F Garrido, N Aptsiauri (Granada)
P370 STUDY OF THE HLA-DRB1 AND -DQB1 GENES IN PATIENTS WITH COEXISTING TYPE 1 DIABETES AND CELIAC DISEASE
MK Viken, ST Flaam, LM Sollid, T Skrivarhaug, K Dahl-Jorgensen, BA Lie (Oslo)
P371 LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN C4 DEFICIENCIES AND HLA-B, -DRB1 AND -DPB1 ALLELES IN THE FINNISH POPULATION
A Wennerström, R Paakkanen, K Salli, M Seppänen, M Lokki (Helsinki)
P372 AUTOANTIBODIES AGAINST SER-419-PHOSPHORYLATED ALPHA-ENOLASE ARE MORE FREQUENT IN DRB1*08 PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA PATIENTS: CAN IT IMPROVE OVERALL SURVIVAL?
M Capello, C Caorsi, PJ Bogantes Hernandez, E Dametto, F Brancatello, R Fiore, FE Bertinetto, ME Fasano, A Amoroso, F Novelli (Torino)
P373 SOLUBLE MICA AND ANTI-MICA ANTIBODIES ARE OPPOSING RISK FACTORS FOR NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA
A Ben Chaaben, W Boukaouci, H Douik, A Ghanem, G Kablouti, T Mamoghli, L Chaouch, L Harzallah, J Bouassida, N Chammakhi, C Fortier, S Griltli, R Krishnamoorthy, D Charron, F Guemira, R Tamouza (Paris)
P374 ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PARKINSON'S DISEASE AND THE HLA-DRB1 LOCUS
I Ahmed, R tamouza, M Delord, R Krishnamoorthy, C Tzourio, C Mulot, M Nacfer, J Lambert, P Beaune, P Laurent-Puig, M Loriot, D Charron, A Elbaz (Villejuif)
P375 RESHAPING THE MHC GENETIC CONTRIBUTION TO MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: AN ASSOCIATION STUDY OF HIGH RESOLUTION HLA-A HLA-B HLA-C HLA-DRB1 HLA-DQB1 IN EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PATIENTS
PA Gourraud, N Cereb, S Yang, M Maiers, J McElroy, S Spellman, C Vierra-Green, B Cree, S Baranzini, S Hauser, J Oksenberg (San Francisco)
P376 PTPN22 C1858T POLYMORPHISM PROTECTS TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS FROM PROTEINURIA.
S Barbuti, D Focosi, S Fornaciari, F Vistoli, M Curcio, ML Mariotti, U Boggi, P Marchetti, F Scatena (Pisa)
P377 MOLECULAR GENETIC TESTING FOR HFE MUTATIONS AS A DIAGNOSTIC AID AND THE FIRST STEP IN IDENTIFYING PATIENTS WITH UNEXPLAINED IRON OVERLOAD: A TEN YEAR EXPERIENCE AT ANTHONY NOLAN / ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.
R Grewal, JS Dooley, K Latham, F Tavarozzi, S Wallis-Jones, L Gallagher, R Jeffery, AP Walker (London)
P378 EXPRESSION OF MHC CLASS I MOLECULES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CEREBELLAR CORTEX
Y Shen, J Liu, D Lv, M Li, Q Shi, A Zhang, F Miao, J Zhang (Nanjing)
P379 EPISTATIC INTERACTION BETWEEN PROTECTIVE HLA ALLELES AND A SUSCEPTIBLE HLA-DP ALLELE IN AUTOIMMUNE THYROID DISEASE
T Sasazuki, S Ueda, H Yoshimura, Y Kosuga, K Ito, K Okamura, M Noda, K Yamamoto (Fukuoka)
P380 HOST IMMUNOGENETIC FACTORS AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO HSV-1 INFECTION: CONTRIBUTION OF POLYMORPHIC GENES AT THE INTERFACE OF INNATE AND ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY
M Moraru, E Cisneros, N Gómez-Lozano, R de Pablo, F Portero, M Cañizares, M Vaquero, G Roustán, I Millán, M López-Botet, C Vilches (Majadahonda)
P381 GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY OF INSULIN AUTOIMMUNE SYNDROME
Y Uchigata, M Kawashima, N Nishida, Y Hirata, K Tokunaga (Tokyo)
P382 POLYMORPHISMS OF KIR AND HLA LOCI INFLUENCE THE AGE OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA ONSET IN MALE PATIENTS WITH HBV INFECTION
N Pan, H Sun, J Qiu, J Xu, F Miao, Q Shi, W Jiang, H Jin, W Xie, J Zhang (Nanjing)
P383 ASSOCIATION STUDIES OF HLA-DRB1 AND DQB1 LOCI IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS IN SOUTH INDIAN TAMIL POPULATION
R Tamouza, JA Brayer, C Mariaselvam, VS Negi, R Krishnamoorthy, H Cao, C Dan, D Charron (Lexington, MA)
P384 QUANTITATIVE CHANGES IN HLA CLASS I EXPRESSION DURING T CELL NORMAL DIFFERENTIATION
T Hidalgo Crespo, P Jiménez, A Sánchez-Palencia, A García Ruano, E García, F Garrido, F Ruiz-Cabello (Granada)
P385 KIR GENE FREQUENCIES AND KIR/HLA COMBINATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH HEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES
EG Khamaganova, TP Chugreeva, EN Parovichnikova (Moscow)
P386 HLA- A, B AND C CELL SURFACE EXPRESSION IN NORMAL AND LEUKEMIC B CELLS
T Hidalgo Crespo, P Jiménez, A McMichael, AM Chamorro, AI Rodríguez, S Brackenridge, F Ruiz-Cabello, F Garrido (Granada)
P387 ANALYSIS OF HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN GENES IN CAUCASIANS WITH MOYAMOYA ANGIOPATHY
FM Heinemann, C Roder, N Khan, RR Diehl, P Berlit, PA Horn, M Kraemer (Essen)
P388 ANALYSIS OF GENETIC PREDISPOSITION IN LARGE THREE-GENERATION FAMILY WITH MANIFESTATION OF MULTIPLE ORGAN-SPECIFIC AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES
M Cerna, A Cibulova, P Cejkova, D Marx (Prague 10)
P389 GAMMA-IRRADIATION INDUCES MHC-I SURFACE EXPRESSION IN TUMOR CELL LINES MODULATING TRANSCRIPTIONAL LEVEL OF BETA 2-MICROGLOBULIN, HEAVY CHAINS AND ANTIGEN PROCESSING MACHINERY GENES
C Garrido, I Romero, I Linares, A Rodríguez, I Algarra, A Collado, F Garrido, Á García-Lora (Granada)
P390 TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSES COMPARING THE PROFILES OF TYPE 1, TYPE 2 AND GESTATIONAL DIABETES MELLITUS SHOW DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF HLA AND KIR GENES
AF Evangelista, CV Collares, DJ Xavier, C Macedo, F Manoel-Caetano, DM Rassi, MC Foss-Freitas, MC Foss, ET Sakamoto-Hojo, C Nguyen, D Puthier, GA Passos, EA Donadi (Ribeirao Preto - SP)
P391 ASSOCIATION OF HLA-DRB1 ALLELES AND AUTOANTIBODY PRODUCTION IN A PORTUGUESE SCLERODERMA COHORT
A Bettencourt, C Carvalho, B Leal, S Maia, D Lopes, M Fonseca, I Almeida, F Perneta, J Pestana, A Marinho, PP Costa, C Vasconcelos, B Martins (Porto)
P392 HLA-C KIR LIGANDS AND HLA-G INS/DEL 14BP DIMORPHISM IN STILLBIRTH
C Capittini, C Badulli, R Insolia, A Ghidoni, I Cetin, F Facchinetti, L Crotti, A De Silvestri, M Martinetti, PJ Schwartz (Pavia)
P393 KIR3DL2 EXHIBITS HIGH ALLELE DIVERSITY AND MAY INFLUENCE THE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO THE AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE PEMPHIGUS FOLIACEUS
DG Augusto, SC Lobo-Alves, MF Melo, NF Pereira, MP Martin, M Carrington, M Petzl-Erler (Curitiba)
P394 BIPOLAR DISORDER RISK IS ASSOCIATED WITH A FUNCTIONAL HLA-G POLYMORPHISM
M Debnath, M Busson, B Etain, S Jamain, N Hamdani, H Moins-Teisserenc, W Boukouaci, M Lajnef, D Bengoufa, A Malafosse, F Bellivier, C Henry, J Kahn, R Krishnamoorthy, D Charron, M Leboyer, R Tamouza (Paris)
P395 ANALYSIS OF HLA CLASS I CELL SURFACE EXPRESSION DURING HEMATOPOIETIC DIFFERENTIATION USING THE INFINICYT SOFTWARE.
A Garcia, C Giménez, S Matarraz, A Orfao, F Garrido, R Francisco (Granada)
P396 DRB1*07:01-DQA1*02:01-DQB1*02:02 INCREASES RISK FOR BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS IN BLACK WOMEN
JA Noble, JA Hollenbach, JA Lane, JE Allsworth (Oakland)
P397 MHC-I SURFACE EXPRESSION IN TUMOR CELLS MAY DETERMINES SUCCESS OF ANTI-METASTATIC IMMUNOTHERAPY
C Garrido, I Romero, I Linares, A Rodríguez, I Algarra, A Collado, F Garrido, Á García-Lora (Granada)
P398 HLA-A*26:01 AND B*39 WITH OCULAR BEHETS DISEASE IN JAPAN
S Kuwata, T Kaburaki, M Takamoto, J Numaga, H Kawashima, M Araie, S Amano, S Harihara, Y Ohnogi, F Takeuchi (Ichihara Chiba)
P399 MICRORNA EXPRESSION PROFILING OF SYNOVIAL TISSUE IN ANIMAL MODEL OF INDUCED ARTHRITIS
P Novota, M Remakova, J Vencovsky (Prague)
P400 HLA GENES IN THE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO RETT SYNDROME
E Dametto, AP Petta Bika, M Boetto, S Rendine, ME Fasano, FE Bertinetto, E Grillo, MA Mencarelli, G Livide, F Ariani, A Renieri, A Amoroso (Turin)
P401 DEVELOPMENT OF EGFR-INHIBITOR INDUCED SKIN RASH IS INFLUENCED BY HLA-A POLYMORPHISMS
D Fürst, C Schumann, V Heinemann, S Böck, T Säufferlein, T Paul, S Parmar, J Stingl, J Mytilineos (Ulm)
P402 GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES OF MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX CLASS IB MOLECULES ASSOCIATED WITH MODULATION OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM DURING ONTOGENY OF MURINE LYMPHOID ORGANS.
BL Melo-lima, AF Evangelista, DA de Magalhães, GA Passos-Junior, EA Donadi (Ribeirao Preto - SP)
Poster Group No 10 - Miscellaneous
P403 CZECH EPT - HLA ALLELES ASSOCIATED WITH DISEASES
M Dobrovolna, M Vrana (Prague)
P404 A SAFER ALTERNATIVE TO ETHIDIUM BROMIDE IN AGAROSE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS
M Ray, M Chen, SV Fuggle, MC Barnardo (Oxford)
P405 DISTRIBUTION OF HLA HAPLOTYPE FREQUENCIES IN RUSSIAN OF MOSCOW REGION
L Lebedeva, T Pukhlikova, A Chumak, D Stavcev, T Astrelina, M Yakovleva (Moscow)
P406 RESEARCH ON THE MICA GENE EXPRESSION LEVELS IN MALIGNANT GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER RELATED WITH HLA, MICA GENE POLYMORPHISM
Y Huang, Y Tan, Y Wei (Guangzhou)
P407 IDENTIFICATION OF TWO NOVEL ALLELES: MICA*002:04 AND MICA*063N ARE FROM CHINESE LUNG CANCER PATIENTS
Y Huang, Y Tan, X Ye, X Xu (Guangzhou)
P408 GENETIC POLYMORPHISMS AT TNF MICROSATELLITES FROM THE HLA CLASS III REGION IN A SOUTH TUNISIAN POPULATION
N Mahfoudh-Lahiani, A Kamoun, M Siala, L Gaddour, F Hakim, H Makni (SFAX)
P409 UNEXPECTED HLA-DRB1*/-DQB1* COMBINATIONS AT HIGH RESOLUTION (HR) TYPING LEVEL IN A GREEK POPULATION
D Kouniaki, V Kitsiou, T Athanassiades, K Tarassi, K Papageorgiou, E Kokkali, C Papasteriades (Athens)
P410 POPULATION DATA FOR 12-Y CHROMOSOME STRS IN SOUTHERN TUNISIA
F Rmida, A Kamoun, N Mahfoudh, A Ayadi, B Mallek, L Maalej, Z Hammemi, S Maatoug, H Makni (Sfax)
P411 HLA GENES IN AMERINDIAN IMMIGRANTS TO MADRID (SPAIN): EPIDEMIOLOGY AND A VIRTUAL TRANSPLANTATION WAITING LIST
C Parga-Lozano, D Rey, C Areces, J Moscoso, S Abd-El-Fatah-Khalil, M Enríquez-de-Salamanca, A Arnaiz Villena (Madrid)
P412 DISTRIBUTION OF HLA ANTIGENS OF KAZAKH POPULATION OF CENTRAL KAZAKHSTAN
T Aida, R Indira (Astana City)
P413 THE FREQUENCY OF DRB1*14:54 IN POPULATION OF PUGLIA, ITALY.
D Mininni, M Margiotta, G Mongelli, R Morici, E Girone, P D'Aniello, C Donato, A Spinelli, A Trentadue, B Favoino (Bari)
P414 HLA-B*15 DIVERSITY IN GUANGDONG HAN POPULATION
X Ye, H Ding, Y Chen, W Xia (Guangzhou)
P415 HLA-B*/-C* UNEXPECTED COMBINATIONS AT HIGH RESOLUTION (HR) TYPING LEVEL IN A GREEK POPULATION
T Athanassiades, V Kitsiou, D Kouniaki, K Tarassi, K Papageorgiou, E Papastergiou, K Zouridaki, C Papasteriades (Athens)
P416 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMAN LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN GENOTYPES AND CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION IN KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION IN ROMANIA
L Dican, L Loga, D Luscalov, M Lucan (Cluj-Napoca)
P417 DEVELOPMENT OF PCR-SYSTEMS SETS FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.
E Poliakova, D Abramov (Moscow)
P418 IS HLA ASSOCIATED WITH LONGEVITY AND GOOD HEALTH ?
MN Mishra (New Delhi)
P419 ANALYZING HLA-G POLYMORPHISMS IN CHILDREN FROM SCLERODERMA WOMEN.
C Picard, DF Azzouz, J Di Cristofaro, SB Kanaan, J Roudier, N Lambert (Marseille)
P420 15 YEARS OF IMMUNOGENETIC HLA PROFICIENCY TESTING IN SOUTHERN ITALY
P Minucci, M Resse, A Picascia, V Grimaldi, D Parente, O Pignalosa, A Russo, F De Luca, T Di Mauro, M Ferriero, B Bibba, A Casamassimi, C Napoli (Naples)
P421 ADDITIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INTRA-MHC GENES, D6S276, D6S265, D6S273, AND D6S291, WITH PEMPHIGUS FOLIACEUS
N Mahfoudh-Lahiani, O Abida, A Kamoun, M Ben Ayed, L Gaddour, F Hakim, A Masmoudi, H Turki, H Masmoudi, H Makni (SFAX)
P422 ASSOCIATION STUDY OF HLA CLASS I ANTIGENS AND OF STR MICA WITH BEHCET DISEASE IN SOUTH TUNISIAN POPULATION
A Kamoun, N Mahfoudh, F Frikha, M Snoussi, R Ben Salah, L Gaddour, F Hakim, Z Bahloul, H Makni (Sfax)
P423 IDENTIFICATION OF DRB1-GENOTYPES, ASSOCIATED WITH T1DM
M Boldyreva, T Jankevic, L Alexeev, I Dedov (Moscow)
P424 LACK OF ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MACROPHAGE MIGRATION INHIBITORY FACTOR GENE VARIANT AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO SCHIZOPHRENIA
R Zakharyan, A Arakelyan, S Atshemyan, F Mrazek, M Petrek, A Boyajyan (Olomouc)
P425 THE DETECTION OF A RARE HLA ALLELE, REVEALED BY AN UNEXPECTED HAPLOTYPE, IN A DISEASE ASSOCIATION PATIENT
K Poole, A McWhinnie, S Wallis-Jones, R Battle, C Irwin, P Koo, N Marsden, B Clark (Leeds)
P426 LUSOCORD - PORTUGUESE PUBLIC CORD BLOOD BANK. 2,5 YEARS ACTIVITY
H Alves, J Teixeira, A Cardoso, N Andrade, A Soares, E Moreira, G Rocha (Porto)
P427 AN OVERVIEW OF THE ACTIVITY OF SERBIAN BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY
Z Andric, R Simonovic, T Dukic, A Ciric, P Govedarica (Belgrade)
P428 GENETIC STRUCTURE OF THE ITALIAN CORD BLOOD REGISTRY AND COMPARISON WITH HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL DONOR REGISTRY
S Rendine, NM Ferrero, N Sacchi, A Amoroso (Torino)
P429 THE ASSOCIATION OF HLA ALLELES WITH ORAL MUCOSITIS SEVERITY AND FREQUENCY IN ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS
S Kalayoglu-Besisik, A Erdem, S Kalayoglu-Besisik, S Kalayoglu-Besisik, F Oguz, F Tufan, C Kekik, F Bilgin-Tarakci, D Sargin (Istanbul)
P430 OCCURRENCE OF BEHCETS DISEASE IN IRAQI FAMILIES
IK Abbas Aljoofy, K Mousawy, Muslih, Al-Waiz (Columbia)
P431 SEQUENCING BASED TYPING FOR HLA-DPA1
DM Smillie, AW Harmer (Sheffield)
P432 EVALUATION OF THE BIOFORTUNA SSPGO HLA-DQB1*KIT.
JH Kelly, M Keogan, D O' Neill, S Jennings (Dublin)