The IPD-IMGT/HLA database: recent developments in sequence submission
database[Title] 2025-11-22
Summary:
The IPD-IMGT/HLA Database, https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/imgt/hla/, contains >43 000 unique alleles from 47 genes recognized by the WHO Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System. The HLA system, located within the human major histocompatibility complex on chromosome 6, represents the most polymorphic genes in the human genome and is described as hyperpolymorphic. With the rapid growth of HLA sequencing worldwide, traditional approaches for submitting and accessing data have been...