A reply to Hurley et al. regarding Recipients Receiving Better HLA-Matched Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Grafts, Uncovered by a Novel HLA Typing Method, Have Superior Survival: A Retrospective Study.

Highlights from the article: The HLA typing landscape is changing, however, with increasing numbers of laboratories moving toward the use of NGS typing platforms and sequencing more of the HLA gene than has been possible previously. 1 I. Vazirabad, S. Chhabra, J. Nytes, Direct HLA genetic comparisons identify highly matched unrelated donor-recipient pairs with improved transplantation outcome, Biol Blood Marrow Transplant, 25, 2019, 921-931Vazirabad I., Chhabra S., Nytes J., et al.