The article cites a research study on 72 unrelated Mandenka individuals from Eastern Senegal, Niokholo region, to determine human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II alleles and haplotypes. The study used Next Generation Sequencing and yielded reliable genotypes for 8 HLA loci, namely A, B, C, DRB1, DQA1, DQB1, DPA1 and DPB1.