History of HLA Nomenclature: The 1970s
The 1970s: Class I, Splits, and Loci Differentiation The 1970’s was all about class I, splits, and loci differentiation. Now that researchers had an idea of what they were working with, they were really getting into the swing of things. The Nomenclature Report in 1970 was all about new specificities. Several new antigen specificities were […]
History of HLA Nomenclature: The 1960s
HLA in the 1960s: Just Getting Started In the 1960’s, researchers started really working to evaluate the antigens on white blood cells. The first International Workshop on Histocompatibility (IWH) was held in 1964 at Duke University but no clear result patterns were observed, though assay techniques were shared.1 The sharing of assay techniques was extremely […]
