HLA-B56

major histocompatibility complex (human), class I, B56
Alleles	B*5601, *5602, *5603, *5604
Structure (See HLA-B)
Symbol(s)	HLA-B
EBI-HLA	B*5601
	B*5602
	B*5603
	B*5604
Locus	chr.6 6p21.31

HLA-B56 (B56) is an HLA-B serotype. B56 is a split antigen from the B22 broad antigen, sister serotypes are B54 and B55. The serotype identifies the more common HLA-B*56 gene products.^[1] (For terminology help see: HLA-serotype tutorial)

Serotype

B56 and B22 serotype recognition of Some HLA B*56 allele-group gene products^[2]

B*56	B56	B22	Sample
allele	%	%	size (N)
5601	72	5	671
5603	46	8	13
5604	73		11

Allele distribution

HLA B*5601 frequencies

		freq
ref.	Population	(%)
[3]	Australian Aborigine Kimberly	35.5
[3]	Papua New Guinea Madang	34.6
[3]	Papua New Guinea New Britain Rabaul	31.6
[3]	Taiwan Ami	20.4
[3]	New Caledonia	19.2
[3]	Australian Aborigine Groote Eylandt	18.0
[3]	Australian Aborigine Cape York Peninsula	16.5
[3]	Australian Aborigine Yuendumu	11.4
[3]	China Yunnan Lisu	9.4
[3]	China Yunnan Nu	3.8
[3]	Senegal Niokholo Mandenka	2.7
[3]	Sudanese	2.5
[3]	American Samoa	2.0
[3]	China Guangxi Maonan	1.9
[3]	Taiwan Hakka	1.8
[3]	Thailand	1.8
[3]	Finland	1.7
[3]	Georgia Tibilisi Kurds	1.7
[3]	India Andhra Pradesh Golla	1.4
[3]	Croatia	1.3
[3]	Japan (5)	1.3
[3]	South Africa Natal Tamil	1.0
[3]	Taiwan Rukai	1.0

References

1. Marsh SG, Albert ED, Bodmer WF, et al. (2005). "Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, 2004". Tissue Antigens. 65 (4): 301–69. doi:10.1111/j.1399-0039.2005.00379.x. PMID 15787720.
2. derived from IMGT/HLA
3. Middleton D, Menchaca L, Rood H, Komerofsky R (2003). "New allele frequency database: http://www.allelefrequencies.net". Tissue Antigens. 61 (5): 403–7. doi:10.1034/j.1399-0039.2003.00062.x. PMID 12753660. External link in |title= (help)