Preface...
Table of Contents...
Contributing Authors...
1. The Past, Present, and Future of HLA Typing in Transplantation
Claire Edgerly and Eric T. Weimer
2. Role of Human Leukocyte Antigens (HLA) in Autoimmune Diseases
Gergely Bodis, Victoria Toth, and Andreas Schwarting
3. The IPD Databases: Cataloguing and Understanding Allele Variants
Jashan P. Abraham, Dominic J. Barker, James Robinson, Giuseppe Maccari, and Steven G.E. Marsh
4. Allele Frequency Net Database
Faviel F. Gonzalez-Galarza, Antony McCabe, Eduardo J. Melo dos Santos, Louise Takeshita, Gurpreet Ghattaoraya, Andrew R. Jones, and Derek Middleton
5. High Resolution HLA-Typing by Next Generation Sequencing of Randomly Fragmented Target DNA
Michael Wittig, Simonas Juzėnas, Melanie Vollstedt, and Andre Franke
6. High-Throughput Contiguous Full-Length Next Generation Sequencing of HLA Class I and II Genes from 96 Donors in a Single MiSeq Run
Philip K. Ehrenberg, Aviva Geretz, and Rasmi Thomas
7. Application of High-Throughput Next Generation Sequencing for HLA Typing on Buccal Extracted DNA
Yuxin Yin, James Lan, and Qiuheng Zhang
8. Super High Resolution for Single Molecule-Sequence-Based Typing of Classical HLA loci using Ion Torrent PGM
Takashi Shiina, Shingo Suzuki, Jerzy K. Kulski, and Hidetoshi Inoko
9. High Resolution Full-Length HLA Typing Method using Third Generation (Pac-Bio SMRT) Sequencing Technology
Sheetal Ambardar and Malali Gowda
10. Full-Length HLA Class I Genotyping with the MinION Nanopore Sequencer
Kathrin Lang, Vineeth Surendranath, Philipp Quenzel, Gerhard Schöfl, Alexander H. Schmidt, and Vinzenz Lange
11. Imputation-Based HLA Typing with SNPs in GWAS Studies
Xiuwen Zheng
12. In Silico Typing of Classical and Non-Classical HLA Alleles from Standard RNA-Seq Reads
Sebastian Boegel, Thomas Bukur, John C. Castle, and Ugur Sahin
13. PHLAT: Inference of High Resolution HLA Types from RNA and Whole Exome Sequencing
Yu Bai, David Wang, and Wen Fury
14. Using Exome and Amplicon-Based Sequencing Data for High-Resolution HLA Typing with ATHLATES
Chang Liu and Xiao Yang
15. HLA Typing from Short-Read Sequencing Data with OptiType
András Szolek
16. Comprehensive HLA Typing from a Current Allele Database using Next Generation Sequencing Data
Shuji Kawaguchi, Koichiro Higasa, Ryo Yamada, and Fumihiko Matsuda
17. Accurate Assembly and Typing of HLA using a Graph-Guided Assembler Kourami
Heewook Lee and Carl Kingsford
18. AmpliSAS and AmpliHLA: Web Server Tools for MHC Typing of Non-Model Species and Human using NGS Data
Alvaro Sebastian, Magdalena Migalska, and Aleksandra Biedrzycka
19. HLA Haplotype Frequency Estimation from Real-Life Data with the Hapl-o-Mat Software
Jürgen Sauter, Christian Schäfer, and Alexander H. Schmidt