• Marija Burek Kamenaric, Marija Maskalan, Zorana Grubic, Mirta Mikulic, Serventi SeiwerthRankaRDepartment of Hematology, Internal Clinic, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. Electronic address: serventi_seiwerth@hotmail.com., Nadira Durakovic, Radovan Vrhovac, Katarina Stingl Jankovic, and Renata Zunec.
• Tissue Typing Centre, Clinical Department for Transfusion Medicine and Transplantation Biology, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. Electronic address: mburek@kbc-zagreb.hr.
• Hum. Immunol. 2017 Nov 1; 78 (11-12): 665-671.

AbstractThe impact of patient/donor matching for HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1 and -DQB1 genes in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is well-recognized, but typing for additional genes, such as HLA-DPB1, is still controversial. Based on defined T-cell epitope (TCE) groups, all HLA-DPB1 mismatches can be classified as permissive or non-permissive. In this retrospective study we analysed 82 patient-matched unrelated donor (MUD) pairs who underwent HSCT, and explored the impact of HLA-DPB1 matches, permissive and non-permissive mismatches on transplantation outcomes. Patient-MUD pairs matched for HLA-DPB1 alleles in univariate analysis were associated with a significantly higher incidence of disease relapse compared to pairs who were permissive/non-permissive HLA-DPB1 mismatched according to the TCE3 and TCE4 algorithms (P=0.025 and P=0.026, respectively), although the significance was lost in multivariate analysis. The analysis did not reveal any significant influence of HLA-DPB1 alleles on overall survival (OS), non-relapse mortality (NRM) or graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) incidence. In conclusion, our study presents evidence that HLA-DPB1 matching influenced the relapse rate in patients after HSCT so the HLA-DPB1 alleles should be implemented in the MUD search algorithm as a transplantation determinant.Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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