Policy 4.7: HLA Antigen Values and Split Equivalences, states; “The Histocompatibility Committee must review and recommend any changes needed to the tables on or before June 1 of each year.” The Board of Directors approved the most recent updates to the Equivalency Tables in November 2013. Since that time, additional equivalencies have been proposed which should be incorporated into the tables in policy. This proposal also adds alleles to the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) dropdown options in UNetSM to increase access to transplant for sensitized candidates. The Histocompatibility Committee (the Committee) also proposes updating references to these HLA loci in policy to HLA-DPB1, HLA-DQA1, and HLA-DQB1 to distinguish them from other similar HLA loci.
Background
Board approved (12/2015)
Public comment proposal (PDF - 372 KB) (8/2015)
Comments
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