Construction of a population-specific HLA imputation reference panel and its application to Graves' disease risk in Japanese

Y Okada, Y Momozawa, K Ashikawa, M Kanai… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
To fine map association signals of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) variants in the major
histocompatibility complex (MHC) region, we constructed a Japanese population-specific …

[HTML][HTML] Imputing amino acid polymorphisms in human leukocyte antigens

X Jia, B Han, S Onengut-Gumuscu, WM Chen… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
DNA sequence variation within human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes mediate susceptibility
to a wide range of human diseases. The complex genetic structure of the major …

[HTML][HTML] HLA imputation and its application to genetic and molecular fine-mapping of the MHC region in autoimmune diseases

T Naito, Y Okada - Seminars in immunopathology, 2022 - Springer
Variations of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes in the major histocompatibility complex
region (MHC) significantly affect the risk of various diseases, especially autoimmune …

[HTML][HTML] High-accuracy imputation for HLA class I and II genes based on high-resolution SNP data of population-specific references

SS Khor, W Yang, M Kawashima, S Kamitsuji… - The …, 2015 - nature.com
Statistical imputation of classical human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles is becoming an
indispensable tool for fine-mappings of disease association signals from case–control …

[HTML][HTML] Construction and application of a Korean reference panel for imputing classical alleles and amino acids of human leukocyte antigen genes

K Kim, SY Bang, HS Lee, SC Bae - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Genetic variations of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes within the major
histocompatibility complex (MHC) locus are strongly associated with disease susceptibility …

Construction and benchmarking of a multi-ethnic reference panel for the imputation of HLA class I and II alleles

F Degenhardt, M Wendorff, M Wittig… - Human molecular …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Genotype imputation of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region is a cost-effective means
to infer classical HLA alleles from inexpensive and dense SNP array data. In the research …

A high-resolution HLA reference panel capturing global population diversity enables multi-ancestry fine-mapping in HIV host response

Y Luo, M Kanai, W Choi, X Li, S Sakaue, K Yamamoto… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Fine-mapping to plausible causal variation may be more effective in multi-ancestry cohorts,
particularly in the MHC, which has population-specific structure. To enable such studies, we …

Five amino acids in three HLA proteins explain most of the association between MHC and seropositive rheumatoid arthritis

S Raychaudhuri, C Sandor, EA Stahl, J Freudenberg… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
The genetic association of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) to rheumatoid
arthritis risk has commonly been attributed to alleles in HLA-DRB1. However, debate …

Genetic and phenotypic landscape of the major histocompatibilty complex region in the Japanese population

J Hirata, K Hosomichi, S Sakaue, M Kanai… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
To perform detailed fine-mapping of the major-histocompatibility-complex region, we
conducted next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based typing of the 33 human leukocyte …

Tutorial: a statistical genetics guide to identifying HLA alleles driving complex disease

S Sakaue, S Gurajala, M Curtis, Y Luo, W Choi… - Nature protocols, 2023 - nature.com
The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) locus is associated with more complex diseases than
any other locus in the human genome. In many diseases, HLA explains more heritability …