Journal article

Publication year: 2011

Pages: 1271-1277

Journal: Transfusion

Volume number: 51

Issue number: 6

ISSN: 0041-1132

eISSN: 1537-2995

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02979.x

Publisher: Wiley

Abstract: 

BACKGROUND: Antibodies against polymorphic structures on human neutrophil antigens (HNAs) play a role in alloimmune-mediated neutropenia and are the leading cause of antibody-mediated transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI). This study aimed to determine the frequencies of HNAs in the major Han ethnic group living in Guangdong Province, Southern China.

STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: A total of 493 healthy Chinese Han blood donors from Guangzhou were recruited. DNA samples were isolated and typed for all five HNA-1, -2, -3, -4, and -5 systems using allele-specific polymerase chain reaction approaches. Results were compared with available data from other Chinese cohorts and other Asian and Caucasian populations.

RESULTS: In this cohort, the gene frequency for HNA-1a (0.667) was approximately twice that of HNA-1b (0.333). In contrast to Caucasian populations, HNA-1a represents the most frequent allele in the Chinese population. HNA-3 system genotyping revealed comparable frequencies for HNA-3a (0.738) and -3b (0.262) in Chinese and Caucasian populations. Homozygous HNA-3bb individuals were found in 5.64% of our cohort. HNA-4 genotyping revealed no HNA-4bb homozygous individuals. In contrast, HNA-5bb homozygous individuals represented 2.43% of the population. Typing the HNA-2 system for the single-nucleotide polymorphism C42G showed that the C-allele (69%) is overrepresented and is associated with an increased number of HNA-2a-positive neutrophil subpopulations.

CONCLUSION: This study describes for the first time the frequencies of all HNA systems, including the newly identified HNA-3, within one cohort of Chinese Han population. Comparison with Caucasian populations may allow assessment of anti-HNA alloimmunization and estimation of alloimmune neutropenia and TRALI incidence in Chinese populations.

Harvard Citation style: Xia, W., Bayat, B., Sachs, U., Chen, Y., Shao, Y., Xu, X., et al. (2011) The frequencies of human neutrophil alloantigens in the Chinese Han population of Guangzhou, Transfusion, 51(6), pp. 1271-1277. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02979.x

APA Citation style: Xia, W., Bayat, B., Sachs, U., Chen, Y., Shao, Y., Xu, X., Deng, J., Ding, H., Fu, Y., Ye, X., & Santoso, S. (2011). The frequencies of human neutrophil alloantigens in the Chinese Han population of Guangzhou. Transfusion. 51(6), 1271-1277. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02979.x