The major histocompatibility complex in Old World camelids and low polymorphism of its class II genes

Table 6 Location of MHC Class II genes in the dromedary reference genome (Accession GCA_000803125.1) and the number of SNPs identified from Sanger (S_SANGER) and next-generation (S_NGS) sequencing

Gene	Scaffold	Start	End	Match %	S_SANGER	S_NGS
DRA Exon 2	8666762_scaffold	116899	117141	100	2	2
DRB Exon 2	8670257_scaffold	1687^a	1418^a	99.6	4	N/A
DRB Exon 2	8666762_scaffold	128830^a	128561^a	99.6	4	N/A
DQA Exon 2	8670390_scaffold	8345	8593	96.4	0	0
DQA Exon 2	8669331_scaffold	27189^a	26941^a	82.3	0	0
DQB Exon 2^b	No significant matches detected				10	N/A

^areverse (3’ – 5’) orientation. ^bDQB is annotated on the same scaffold as the highest scoring DQA match (8670390_scaffold) but no significant BLAST matches to exon 2 were detected