Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, 1996

The WHO Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System met in the Institut Biomedical ders Cordeliers, in Paris in June 1996 after the 12th In,ternational Histocompatibility Workshop and Conference to consider additions and revisions to the nomenclature of specificities defined by both molecular and serological techniques following the principles established in previous reports ( 1-1 3).T b main subjects discussed were:1.The naming of new genes within the HLA re-2.Naming of new alleles 3. Naming of alleles with altered levels of expression 4. Naming of serological specificities 5. Funding of the nomenclature report and sequence database gion 1.The naming of new genes with the HLA region Recently a number of new genes have been identified within the HLA region including some whose functions are related to HLA class I and I1 genes.The Committee discussed what its strategy should be for the naming of these and further new