IPD - MHC Database

Welcome to the NHP database, a specialist database for the Major Histocompatibility Complex genes of Non-Human Primates. The database includes Apes and both Old World and New World monkeys. It presently covers 44 different primate species and is subject to quality control.

For allele designation the database uses the 2010 nomenclature rules described by the WHO Nomenclature Committee for Factors of the HLA System.

The alignments used have been curated by;

Natasja de Groot, Nel Otting and Ronald Bontrop
Biomedical Primate Research Centre
Lange Kleiweg 139
RIJSWIJK
The Netherlands

Tel: +31 15 284 2699
Fax: +31 15 284 3999
Email: Natasja de Groot (ipdmhc.nhp@bprc.nl)
URL: http://www.bprc.nl/

We hope you will cite the IPD - MHC NHP database whenever you publish your sequences. When citing the database you can use the following articles.

• Robinson J, Waller MJ, Stoehr P, Marsh SGE
  IPD - the Immuno Polymorphism Database
  Nucleic Acids Research (2005), 331:D523-526
  Full Text available from Nucleic Acids Research or Download PDF File
   
• Robinson J, Waller MJ, Parham P, de Groot N, Bontrop R, Kennedy LJ, Stoehr P, Marsh SGE
  IMGT/HLA and IMGT/MHC: sequence databases for the study of the major histocompatibility complex
  Nucleic Acids Research (2003), 31:311-314
  Full Text available from Nucleic Acids Research or Download PDF File