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P442
P441
HIGH RESOlUTION HLA MATCHING ASSOCIATED WITH DECREASED MORTALITY AFTER .
UNRELATED BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION. Jeannet MieIlel' , Speiser Daniel', Rufer Nathalie', GrundschoberChrislop/le', GralWohl AJois', Chapuis Bernard', HeIg Claudine', LiiligerCornelius', S'enMarja-Kaisa', Roosnek Eddy', and TIerC)' Jean-Mariel . 'Department ofInternalMedicine, UniversityHospital, Geneva, Switzerland, 'Di~s ion ofHematology, University Hospital Basel, Switzerland, ' University Hcspital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany and ' UniversityCentral Hospital, Heisinki, Finland As comparedwilh related HLA identicalsiblingdonors, bone marrow Iran'planlation (BMT) with phenotypically HLA ABDR-'tompaUble' unrelated donorsis associated withincrea' edmalta/ity. This maybedue 10 HLAinrompalibilifa nol detected byron,entlana! typing. We have analyzed44 unrelaledpaUBnt-OOnor pairswho weramaicIled ~ HLA-A,-B, and-OR byrOUbne tissue typing. 0 ... canprehensiYe HLA typing approach consisled 01serology,cytlltoxic T cell precursor (CTLp) tests, Tcell doning, oIigolyping and DNAsequencing. This allowed the idenli1icatioo of numerous HLA mismalchesmissed by!herouline typing procedure. 24 patienl-donoc pairs were highly matched, whilethe remai1ing 20 pairs were allele mismatched at ertherHLA·A.-B,-C,-DR, or -DO loci, andIor for !heCTLp lest Patient and donor age, di....,osis, and treatment
p443
BoNEMARROWlllANSPLAHTATlON (8MT) WITH UNRELATED DONORS IN NORWAY
Egela'ld Tastei1, 8l'i1d1 L.aentz. EYellSBO Steil A AlTed1lsen Dagfi1n, 'll1cxsl1t E, Institute of Tra nsplantation Immuno logy, Med~ Depa rtment A, and Surgical Departm ent B, The National Hospital , Oslo , Norway In 1990 - 1995, 32 Norwegian adult patients, mean age 31 years (15-50), 16/14 males/females , underwent BMT with unrelated donors . 21 patients had CML in CP, 6 had AML in 1. or 2, rem, and 5 had ALL In 2. or 3. rem. 10/13 CMV neg patients received CMV neg marrow , Busulphan , 16 mglkg , and cyclophosph amide , 120 mgl kg, were used for cond itioning. Standard cyc1osporin N melothrexate acute graft versus host disease (AGVHD) prophylaxis was given. All but one donor matched serolog ically for HLA-A and -B and fo r DRBl and DOB1 by SSOP or DNA sequencing. 13/21 donors were mismatched for one DPB1 al ele. A compatible donor was found for 78% of tile patients. 25 patients were transplanted at Th e National Hospital : Fille patients (20%) developed AGVHD grade III-IV and 11 (44%) patients had AGVHD grade I-II. AGV HD was observed w~h and w~hout DPB1 mismatch es. One rejection was seen. 19 (76%) pal ients are alive 2-66 month s post-BMf. Five patients died within 8 months and one 17 months post-BMT. The data indicate that BMf with unrelated HLA-A , B, DRB1 , and DOB1 matched dono rs gives results approach ing those of BMT w~h HLA-identi cal sibs. Matching for DPB1 seems 10 be less important. BMT with unrelaled donors wilh one HLA-A, B, or DR mismatch is being considered to allow more patienls be lransplanted.
P445
MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF CLASS U HLA DISPARITY IN BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTS USING UNRELATED DONORS Baxter-Lowe LA, Noreen H, Salazar M, Schmeckpeper B, Williams TM, Granja C, Awdeh Z, Begovich A, Kitajima D, Morse L, HeglandJ, Ng J, Hartzman R, Hurley C,Chapek M
National MarrowDonorProgram. Minne apol is, Minnesota, USA
Retrospective analysis of class U HLA disparity was performedfor l ,302 donorrecipient pairs from unrelated-donorbane marrow transplants performed between1988 and 1994. A combination of DNA-based meth od s was used to resolve class II HLA alleles. The observed mismatches between donor and recipientfollowing high resolution class II typing is summarized by locusbelow. Lo cus
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1!B1!J
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!lQAllli!lUDPAl
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19.5 931
14.0 508
11.0 219
13.9 JJ8
86.9 735
0,4 259
18.8 483
47.8 1190
Pre liminary ana lysis of these typi ngs re vealed substan tial Glass II HLA d isparity between donors and rec ipients , primaril y attr ibutab le to the high ra te of HLA·DP dispa rity. Disp arity be tween donor and recipient for HLA·DRB an d HLA-DQ was less freq uent. Disparities w ithin HLA ·DRBI groups were most freq uently observed for DRB [· 11 (23%), DRBI · U8 (20% ), and DRB I4 04 ([7% ). Each mismatch w ithin a loc us was furt her defined to include analysis o f the struct ural and funct iona l changes in the HLA molecule and the type (conservative ve rsus no n-conservative ) of amino acid substitutio n. For insta nce, the most frequently mismatched res idues encod ed by the sec ond exon of DRB I were P71 and p86. Mismatches, definedat various levels (incl udin g sero logic , gene ric DNA-b ased. alle lic and amino acid) and corre lated with patien t outcome. will be used to investigate th e clinical relevance of class II HLA dispar ity for bone marrow tran splantation using unrelated donors. The study was sponsored by the N ational Marr ow Donor Prog ram
(Office of Naval Research Grant #NOOOI4-93-I-0658).
CORRELATION OF RISKOF ACUTEGRAFT-VERSUS-HOSTDISEASE (GVHD) WITH DONOR-RECIPIENTMISMATCHINGFOR HLA·D06 1 ALLELES IN UNRELATED DONOR(URD) TRANSPlAN TATION Petersdort EW, Longton G, Anasetti C, Mickelson E, SmithA, Martin P, Hansen J Fred Hutchinson CancerResearch Center and the Universityof Washington, Seattle, WA, USA We studied the effect of HLA-DOB1 allele mismatching on the development 01acute GVHDin 4B9patients who underwent marrowtnansplantation from HLA-A, B, DR serologically malched URDs for hemalologic malignancy at our center between May 1, 1985 and June 30, 1995. All patent s received methotrexale and cycJosporine as GVHD prophylaxis and unmanipulated (T cell replete) marrow. HLA-DRBl and DOBl alleles were typed by mclecular nnethods. Of the 469 donor-recipient pairs, 343 were DRBl and DOBl matched, 47 we", DRB1 matched but DOBl mismatched, 51 were DRBl mismatched but DOBl matched, and 28 were DRBl and DOBl mismatched. In a univariable Cox model, the relative risk (RR) 01grades III-IV acute GVHDfor DOBl mismatching among DRBl matches was 2.0 (95% CI: 1.3, 3.0; p=.OO2) and tor DOBl mismatching among DRB1 mismatches was 1.5 (95% CI: .78, 2.7; p; .24). The RR of DOBl mismatching when stratified on DRB1 matchstatus was 1.8 (95% CI: 1.2, 2.6; p; .D02) HLA-DOB1 allele mismatching is a risk factor tor acuteGVHDin unrelated marrowlransplantation, and henceHLA-DO functionsas a transplantation antigen.
P444 UNRELATED BMT IN HUNGARY, 4 YEARS EXl"ERJENCE E.GyM . E.Nyiri, B.Ko!szi". L.TImb", Gy.Pelr.lnyi Had. lnatinne of Kaematology. BLood Tramfusion and ImmllnOlogy. Budapest; "Szt. LWI6 Hospital, Budapest, Hungary Hungarian Bone Marrow Donor Regj ~try was estabLisbed in L99L with the aim at providing the basic cootact bel-.J the clinical BMT progt:lD1 and the world-wide organization. Unrelated donor sean:hes have been initiated for 3S patients (19 children , 16 adult» via EDS ccm pe ter liDk up since 1992 . Altogether 87 voJu.nteers from diffeml1 rountri.n were asbd 10 give blood for DR t)lPing >nd 42 for MLC and DNA typing. Serological, cellular (MLC.CT Lp) >nd molcculla biol"iPcal metlloplantr:ieh indicated BMT were: CML (0= 10), AML (0~ 1) , ALL (0=1). SAA (0= 1), F>nconi anaemia (0=2). All dnnor ·..cipient pairs wen: HLA·A!l,DR ,DQ identical. HLA-DPB" dirren:d in 5 from the 8 DPS " typed pain. 10 eacb case MLC _ negative in GVH directioD. but in 2 CUC'S were iDcorlclusive in HVO din."Clion. CfLp f""lUCDCie> were measured in 6 cases (2 low and 4 IOgll 1ev1:1l.C died sbonly after transplaDlation. Thi s worl< " .. supported in part by the Europe8Jl Foundation forScienees, Arts and Culture, Pari..Ams1erdam, by Hungarian MinilIuyofWellfan:(ETI-T227/1 993)
P446
HLA-Cw MISMATCHES IS PREDICIlVE OF B27-44 SUBTYPE MISMATCHESIN UNRELATED MARROWDONOR/PATIENTPAIRS. RAFFOUX C, TATAR! Z. FORTIER C, TAMOUZA C, MARZAIS F, O. CHARRON, Laboratoire d'lmmunologie et d'Histocornpatibilite, Hopital Saint Louis, Paris. France, HLA-C serologically defined alleles have been described in strong linkage disequilibrium with HLA-B alleles: Cw4 with B35. Cw8 with B14. In unrelated donor/recipient situations, we developed a PCR-RFLP Typing technique which is able to define 21 HLA-Cw alleles among the 36 defined by sequencing . We performedmolecular subtyping of B44 or B27 alleles using PCR/SSO and DGGE techniques (B4402,03,04,05,06/ 2701,02,03,04,05,06,07,08,09) in 14 pairs sharing these alleles among 100 donor/recipient pairsserologically HLA-AB identical
Cw identical Cw different
B27-844 identical 8
B27-B44 different
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We suggest the possibility to use a new decisional tree for the choice of the unrelated donor: First, AB serological typing, then HLA ORBI, then Cw molecular typing followed among the Cw-ORBI identical donors to the patientby AB molecular genotyping,These results emphazise the importance of HLA Cw and AB molecular Typing in donor selection.