Useful Links

Useful H&I Links:

World Marrow Donor Association (WMDA)

https://wmda.info/

 

The European Society got Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT)

https://www.ebmt.org/

The Joint Accreditation Committee ISCT-Europe & EBMT (JACIE) Standards

https://www.ebmt.org/accreditation/jacie-standards

 

The Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath)

https://www.rcpath.org/

 

United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS)

https://www.ukas.com/

 

Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/medicines-and-healthcare-products-regulatory-agency

 

European Federation for Immunogenetics (EFI)

https://efi-web.org/

 

Common and Well Documented Alleles and Population Analysis Tools (via EFI)

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British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (BSHI)

https://bshi.org.uk/

BSHI Guidelines (Detection and Characterisation of Clinically Relevant Antibodies plus HLA Matching and Donor Selection for Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant)

Policies and Guidelines

 

British Transplantation Society (BTS)

https://bts.org.uk/

British Transplantation Society (BTS) Guidelines

https://bts.org.uk/guidelines-standards/

 

British Society for haematology (BSH) Guidelines

https://b-s-h.org.uk/guidelines/

haemachromatosis: https://b-s-h.org.uk/guidelines/guidelines/diagnosis-and-therapy-of-genetic-haemochromatosis-review-and-2017-update/

Use of platelet transfusions https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjh.14423

 

NEQAS Central Office

https://ukneqas.org.uk/

 

Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs (SaBTO)

Guidance on the microbiological safety of human organs, tissues and cells used in transplantation

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-the-microbiological-safety-of-human-organs-tissues-and-cells-used-in-transplantation

 

Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT) Reports

https://www.shotuk.org/shot-reports/

 

Asia-Pacific Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics Association (APHIA)

https://www.aphia.org.au/

 

American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI)

https://www.ashi-hla.org/default.aspx

 

Indian Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ISHI)

https://ishi-hla.org/

 

Arabic Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ARSHI)

https://arshi-hla.org/

 

EPI:

IPD-IMGT/HLA Database

This provides a specialist database for sequences of the human major histocompatibility complex (MHC)

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/imgt/hla/

HLA Dictionary Tools

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/imgt/hla/dictionary.html

DPB1 T-Cell Epitope Algorithms

DPB1 T-Cell Epitope Algorithm (version 2, August 2016)

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ipd/imgt/hla/dpb_v2.html

HLA Nomenclature

https://hla.alleles.org/nomenclature/index.html

 

Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy

https://www.factwebsite.org/

 

National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC)

https://www.nibsc.org/

 

The Common and Well Documented Allele Catalogue

http://igdawg.org/cwd.html
https://www.ihiw18.org/component-immunogenetics/download-common-and-well-documented -alleles-3-0/

 

PIRCHE Algorithm for HSCT

https://www.pirche.com/pirche/#/features/bioinformatics/The-PIRCHE-Algorithm-in-HSCT

 

NMDP bioinformatics resources

https://bioinformatics.bethematchclinical.org/

 

Haplostats Haplotype Prediction Aid

https://www.haplostats.org/haplostats?execution=e1s1

 

Allele Frequency Net Database

http://www.allelefrequencies.net

 

Worldwide allele distribution maps for HLA-A, HLA-B, HLA-C, HLA-DRB1, HLA-DQA1, HLA-DQB1, HLA-DPA1 and HLA-DPB1 (Solberg et al., 2008)

http://www.pypop.org/popdata/