IPD - MHC Database

Welcome to the IPD - MHC BoLA Website. This is intended to be the definitive source of information on the bovine major histocompatibility complex - its genes, proteins and polymorphism. The BoLA nomenclature committee is a standing committee of the International Society for Animal Genetics. Its purpose is to collate data on the Bovine Leucocyte Antigens (BoLA) and provide a forum for the analysis and nomenclature of polymorphisms in the genes and proteins of the bovine MHC.

The information gathered here is based on the BoLA workshop reports, which are published in Animal Genetics and the European Journal of Immunogenetics. The workshop report data are reproduced with the permission of the publishers Blackwell Science, and other text on the site is used with the permission of CRC Press. The committee acknowledges their cooperation in making this site possible.

We have listed all the currently known alleles, as nucleotide sequence alignments, for BoLA class I and class II loci in the following tables. New nomenclature is used where possible, and tables of previous equivalents are given. Accession numbers and references for published sequences are listed.

For more information on BoLA nomenclature please contact;

Prof. Shirley A. Ellis
Bovine Molecular Immunology Group
Immunology Division
Institute for Animal Health
Compton
RG20 7NN
UK

Tel: +44 (0) 1635 577265
Fax: +44 (0) 1635 577263
Email: shirley.ellis@bbsrc.ac.uk