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Biobanking in a histocompatibility laboratory. Guidelines from the Francophone Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (SFHI) Volume 79, issue 4, Juillet-Août 2021

Authors
1 Department of Biology and Therapies, Histocompatibility Laboratory, Établissement français du sang Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes, Grenoble, France
2 Department of Immunology and Histocompatibility, Nancy University Hospital, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France
3 Department of Biology and Therapies, Histocompatibility Laboratory, Établissement français du sang Centre – Pays-de-la-Loire, Tours, France
4 Department of Biology and Therapies, Histocompatibility Laboratory, Établissement français du sang PACA-Corse, Marseille, France
5 Department of Biology and Therapies, Histocompatibility Laboratory, Établissement français du sang Bretagne, Rennes, France
6 Departement of Immunology, Hôpital Saint-Éloi, Montpellier, University of Montpellier, France
7 Department of Biology and Therapies, Histocompatibility Laboratory, Établissement français du sang Centre -Pays-de-la-Loire, Nantes, France
8 Department of Immunology and Histocompatibility, Hôpital Saint-Louis, APHP, Paris, France
9 Department of Histocompatibility, Amiens University Medical Center, Amiens, France
10 Société francophone d’histocompatibililité et d’immunogénétique (SFHI), France
* Correspondance
a Contribution équivalente

Histocompatibility laboratories perform the biological analyses linked related to organ transplant, hematopoietic stem cells transplant, some immune dysfunction diseases and immuno-allergy after therapeutic treatment. Most of these analyses are prospectively or retrospectively performed on sera and DNA. The Société Francophone d’Histocompatibilité et d’Immunogénétique (SFHI) has made some recommendations in order to define storage conditions and storage lifetime of the samples required in a histocompatibility laboratory. These recommendations have been drawn up by a working group of ten biologists. They have been established on literature review and data from method validation, which has been already performed within French laboratories (collected through a national questionnaire sent to participant laboratories).

The recommendations made by the SFHI for the storage of samples for immunogenetics analyses facilitate the harmonization of practices among histocompatibility laboratories.