IPD-MHC Database

Welcome to the IPD-MHC Swine Leukocyte Antigen (SLA) website. The site is intended as a resource for information on the nomenclature and DNA sequence data for the genes of the swine MHC complex. The data presented represents work published or submitted to public databases by many authors and has been compiled and edited by the members of the SLA Nomenclature Committee of the International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG).

The information presented here is based on the reports of the SLA Class I Nomenclature Workshops:

• Smith DM, Lunney JK, Martens GW, Ando A, Lee JH, Ho CS, Schook L, Renard C, Chardon P
  Nomenclature for factors of the SLA class-I system, 2004
  Tissue Antigens (2005), 65:136-9
   
• Smith DM, Lunney JK, Ho CS, Martens GW, Ando A, Lee JH, Schook L, Renard C, Chardon P
  Nomenclature for factors of the swine leukocyte antigen class-II system, 2005
  Tissue Antigens (2005), 66:623-9
   
• Ho CS, Lunney JK, Ando A, Rogel-Gaillard C, Lee JH, Schook LB, Smith DM
  Nomenclature for factors of the SLA system, update 2008
  Tissue Antigens (2009), 73:307-15
   

Both articles are freely available from Blackwell-Synergy.com.

The following additional information on the SLA region is also available:

• Conditions for Acceptance of New Allele Sequences
  
  
• Map of the SLA Class I Region
• Map of the SLA Class II Region

• Phylogeny of SLA-1, SLA-3 and SLA-5 (pdf)
• Phylogeny of SLA-2 (pdf)
• Phylogeny of SLA-DRB (pdf)
• Phylogeny of SLA-DQA (pdf)
• Phylogeny of SLA-DQB (pdf)