The HLA Laboratory facility in Arcadia, CA offers HLA typing and Chimerism Analysis services for transplant centers, international stem cell registries, other medical laboratories, and even individual family typing throughout the world.

StemCyte offers important advantages over other HLA labs:

• Specialists in Ethnically Diverse Typing
• Competitive Pricing
• Rapid Response
• Renowned HLA Leadership and Experience
• Quality Standards and Accreditations of a World-Class Cord Blood Bank

Our StemCyte HLA Laboratory was designed to handle high capacity HLA typing in order to manage the long-term growth of one of the world's largest cord blood banking centers. This large capacity, seasoned leadership and our commitment to excellence, gives rise to an important partnership opportunity for transplant centers and other laboratories.

A reliable resource for outsourcing If you manage an HLA laboratory, you know how unexpected demand can overwhelm the lab. We can help. Put our resources to work for you. That makes all the StemCyte advantages your advantages. From rapid, high-resolution results, to high-volume low-resolution testing, to resolving or corroborating difficult alleles.

When your lab needs to outsource excess demand, StemCyte is a ready and reliable partner. Call us 1.866.783.6298 (1-866-STEMCYTE), ext. 119, or e-mail us at HLA@stemcyte.com.

HLA Lab services offered

We use several molecular typing technologies to yield accurate results. DNA can be isolated from peripheral blood, bone marrow, cord blood, and/or buccal swab. Molecular DNA analysis of HLA genes is performed by PCR-SSP and/or PCR-SSOP with Sequence Based Typing (SBT) by 2006.

HIGH RESOLUTION TYPING

• Class I, HLA-A, B, C
• Class II, HLA-DRB1, DQB1, DPB1

LOW RESOLUTION TYPING

• HLA-A, B, C, DRB1, DQB1, KIR

CHIMERISM ANALYSIS

KIR GENOTYPING

Families: We offer HLA Tissue Typing for families to identify family members compatible for potential bone marrow (or cord blood) matches for future transplants.

Lab Accreditations

StemCyte HLA Laboratory maintains the strictest quality controls as defined by the industry. These quality controls are confirmed through our accreditations:

• American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI)
• CLIA (the Federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1988)
• California Department of Laboratory and Field Services accreditation

In addition, The StemCyte International Cord Blood Center, of which StemCyte HLA Laboratory is a part, is accredited, registered or licensed by:

• The American Association of Blood Banks (AABB)
• Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT)
• The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP)
• The College of American Pathologists (CAP)
• California Department of Laboratory and Field Services
• CLIA certification
• FDA registered