First report of the ISAG DLA Nomenclature

A Nomenclature Committee for factors of the dog major histo- compatibility system or dog leukocyte antigen (DLA) has been convened under the auspices of the International Society for Animal Genetics (ISAG) to define a sequence-based nomenclature for the genes of the DLA system. The remit of this committee includes: i) assignment of gene names; ii) rules for naming alleles; iii) assignment of names to published alleles; iv) assign- ment of names to new alleles; and v) rules for acceptance of new alleles.