Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, update April 2008

A new HLA-B*35 allele, B*3589, detected in a Malaysian individual

A novel human leukocyte antigen-B allele officially named B*3589, was found in an indigenous individual of Jehai ethnicity when sequencing was performed to investigate human genome variation in a research project. B*3589 differs form B*3505 in a point mutation at codon 169 (CGC to TGC) resulting in an amino acid change from Arg to Cys.