Objective To better characterize the genetic association between human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and anti-IgLON5 disease to explore auto-antigen binding associated HLA molecules their functional involvement in pathophysiology. Background Anti-IgLON5 is a rare, but likely underdiagnosed type of autoantibody encephalitis with heterogeneous clinical phenotype, including sleep, movement brainstem dys...

Citation: Seiffert-Sinha K, Khan S, Attwood K, Gerlach JA and Sinha AA (2018) Anti-Thyroid Peroxidase Reactivity Is Heightened in Pemphigus Vulgaris and Is Driven by Human Leukocyte Antigen Status and the Absence of Desmoglein Reactivity. Front. Immunol. 9:625. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.00625 anti-Thyroid Peroxidase reactivity is heightened in Pemphigus Vulgaris and is Driven by human leukocyte a...

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes are the most polymorphic in the human genome. They play a pivotal role in the immune response and have been implicated in numerous human pathologies, especially autoimmunity and infectious diseases. Despite their importance, however, they are rarely characterized comprehensively because of the prohibitive cost of standard technologies and the technical challe...

Pemphigus Vulgaris (PV) is a rare autoimmune blistering disease with multifactorial origin. Key Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) alleles, including DRB1*0402 and DQB1*0503, have been linked to the development of PV. However, it not known how HLA types vary ethnicity they shape autoimmunity in We assessed correlations between factors genotype, ethnicity, auto-antibody levels, lesion distribution co...

BACKGROUND The incidence of rheumatic heart disease is great in Brazil. We analyzed the distribution of human leukocyte (HLA) antigens in a Brazilian population sample with rheumatic fever or rheumatic heart disease, with the aim of better understanding the mechanisms involved. METHODS AND RESULTS HLA class I (A, B, and C) and class II (DR and DQ) antigen distribution was studied in 40 patien...

The need for typing of the swine leukocyte antigen (SLA) is increasing with the expanded use of pigs as models for human diseases and organ-transplantation experiments, their use in infection studies, and for design of veterinary vaccines. Knowledge of SLA sequences is furthermore a prerequisite for the prediction of epitope binding in pigs. The low number of known SLA class I alleles and the l...