HLA is the official journal of the European Federation for Immunogenetics. Our advanced immunogenetics journal publishes a range of article types covering all aspects of genetic control of immunity. Topics of interest include disease susceptibility and genetics, immunogenetics, population genetics, transplantation, and more. With free format submission and rapid publication of your research, we ensure that articles on tissue antigens are gathered quickly in one place and accessible to everyone interested in this field.

The HLA Award

The HLA Award is presented annually at the European Federation for Immunogenetics annual conference, to the authors of the manuscript published in the HLA journal in the previous year that has by virtue of citations and downloads been deemed to have the most scientific impact in the field of histocompatibility and immunogenetics. The winners are presented with a plaque and are recipients of a prize of €1000. The previous HLA Awardees and winning papers are listed here.

Photo showing Editor-in-Chief Steven G. E. Marsh presenting the 2024 HLA Award to Professor Paul Norman at the 37th Conference of the European Federation for Immunogenetics (EFI), May 2024

The award-winning paper for 2024: Complete sequences of six major histocompatibility complex haplotypes, including all the major MHC class II structures
Torsten Houwaart, Stephan Scholz, Nicholas R. Pollock, William H. Palmer, Katherine M. Kichula, Daniel Strelow, Duyen B. Le, Dana Belick, Lisanna Hülse, Tobias Lautwein, Thorsten Wachtmeister, Tassilo E. Wollenweber, Birgit Henrich, Karl Köhrer, Peter Parham, Lisbeth A. Guethlein, Paul J. Norman, Alexander T. Dilthey

HLA EiC Steven G. E. Marsh presenting the 2024 HLA Award to Professor Paul Norman at the 37th Conference of the European Federation for Immunogenetics (EFI) in Geneva, March 2024

Articles

NEW ALLELE ALERT

Characterization of the Novel HLA-A*24:02:169 Allele by Sequencing-Based Typing

Vincent Elsermans, Marine Cargou, Thibault Pajot, Isabelle Top, Myriam Labalette, 
  •  4 October 2024
NEW ALLELE ALERT

Characterization of the Novel HLA-C*07:01:126 Allele by Sequencing-Based Typing

Vincent Elsermans, Jonathan Visentin, Thibault Pajot, Isabelle Top, Myriam Labalette, 
  •  4 October 2024
NEW ALLELE ALERT

The HLA‐C*14:152 Allele Was Identified Using a Next‐Generation Sequencing Method

Si-Hwan Kim, John Jeongseok Yang, Heung-Bum Oh, 
  •  4 October 2024
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Analysis of KIR and HLA Polymorphism in Chinese Individuals With COVID-19

Sudan Tao, Xuan You, Paul J. Norman, Katherine M. Kichula, Lina Dong, Nanying Chen, Ji He, Wei Zhang, Faming Zhu, 
  •  4 October 2024
BRIEF COMMUNICATION
Open access

Characterisation of the HLA-DQ alpha eplet 52SK targeting the DQA1*01 alleles family

Magali Devriese, Jar How Lee, Tina Meng, Thoa Nong, Neng Jen Remi Shih, François A. Lemonnier, Hiroko Miyadera, Lisa Giraldo, Cédric Usureau, Olivier Toutirais, Dave Lowe, Jean Luc Taupin, 
  •  1 October 2024
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The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.

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Nomenclature for factors of the HLA system, 2010

S. G. E. Marsh, E. D. Albert, W. F. Bodmer, R. E. Bontrop, B. Dupont, H. A. Erlich, M. Fernández-Viña, D. E. Geraghty, R. Holdsworth, C. K. Hurley, M. Lau, K. W. Lee, B. Mach, M. Maiers, W. R. Mayr, C. R. Müller, P. Parham, E. W. Petersdorf, T. Sasazuki, J. L. Strominger, A. Svejgaard, P. I. Terasaki, J. M. Tiercy, J. Trowsdale, 
  •  291-455
  •  17 March 2010
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Distribution of HLA allele frequencies in 82 Chinese individuals with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19)

Wei Wang, Wei Zhang, Jingjing Zhang, Ji He, Faming Zhu, 
  •  194-196
  •  19 May 2020

Tumor-associated antigens: Tn antigen, sTn antigen, and T antigen

C. Fu, H. Zhao, Y. Wang, H. Cai, Y. Xiao, Y. Zeng, H. Chen, 
  •  275-286
  •  28 September 2016

Evaluation of the AllType kit for HLA typing using the Ion Torrent S5 XL platform

Marine Cargou, Mamy Ralazamahaleo, Laura Blouin, Isabelle Top, Vincent Elsermans, Marco Andreani, Gwendaline Guidicelli, Jonathan Visentin, 
  •  30-39
  •  2 October 2019

HLA allele frequencies and susceptibility to COVID-19 in a group of 99 Italian patients

Antonio Novelli, Marco Andreani, Michela Biancolella, Laura Liberatoscioli, Chiara Passarelli, Vito Luigi Colona, Paola Rogliani, Francesca Leonardis, Andrea Campana, Rita Carsetti, Massimo Andreoni, Sergio Bernardini, Giuseppe Novelli, Franco Locatelli, 
  •  610-614
  •  22 August 2020
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