HLA/Scientific Literature

Books

Immunology

• The Immune System. Peter Parham Amazon
• Immunology 2E. Jan Klein Amazon
• Natural History of the Major Histocompatability Complex. Jan Klein Amazon
• Biology of the Mouse Histocompatibility-2 Complex: Principles of Immunogenetics Applied to a Single System. Jan Klein. Amazon

Genetics

• Principles of Population Genetics, Fourth Edition by Daniel L. Hartl and Andrew G. Clark Amazon
• The History and Geography of Human Genes: Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, Alberto Piazza. Amazon
• Genes, Peoples, and Languages. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Amazon
• The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Amazon
• The Genetics of Human Populations by L. L. Cavalli-Sforza and W. F. Bodmer Amazon
• The Book of Man: The Human Genome Project and the Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage by Sir Walter Bodmer and Robin McKie Amazon

Papers in scientific journals

Discovery and first papers

• Medawar: Relationship between the antigens of blood and skin. Nature. 1946 Feb 9;157:161
• Medawar: Immunity to homologous grafted skin; the relationship between the antigens of blood and skin. Br J Exp Pathol. 1946 Feb
• Dausset: Iso-leuko-antibodies. Acta Haematol. 1958 Jul-Oct;20(1-4):156-66
• Bodmer: A new leukocyte isoantigen system in man. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 1964;29:285-95
• Van Rood: Relationship of leukocyte groups to tissue transplantation compatibility. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1964 Nov 30;120:285-98
• Dausset: Isolation and chemical characterization of transplantation antigens in man. Presse Med. 1968 Oct 5;76(37):1753-6
• Dausset: Human transplantation antigens: the HL-A (Hu-1) system and its homology with the mouse H-2 system. Transplantation. 1968 Jul;6(4):571-86
• Dausset: The role of blood group antigens in human histocompatibility, and in particular of antigens of the Hu-1 system. Bibl Haematol. 1968;29:587-601
• Benacerraf: Genetic analysis of complementing H-linked Ir genes. Immunol Rev 1985 Apr - 83:23-40

General introductions and reviews

• The HLA system. First of two parts. NewEngJMed_2000_343_702
• The HLA system. Second of two parts. NewEngJMed_2000_343_782
• Immunogenetics of killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptors. TissueAntigens_2003_62_194
• Self-nonself discrimination, histoincompatibility, and the concept of immunology. Immunogenetics_1999_50_116
• PRODUCING NATURE’S GENE-CHIPS: The Generation of Peptides for Display by MHC Class I Molecules. AnnuRevImmunol_2002_20_463

Population genetics

• Balancing selection and heterogeneity across the classical human leukocyte antigen loci: a meta-analytic review of 497 population studies. HumImmunol_2008_69_443

HLA epitopes

• Nine major HLA class I supertypes account for the vast preponderance of HLA-A and -B polymorphism Immunogenetics_1999_50_201
• Post-transplantation antibody monitoring and HLA antibody epitope identification. CurrOpinImmunol_2008_20_602

Internet resources

• Transplantation/Internet Resources