The present invention provides a portable system for real-time
population-scale HLA genotyping and/or allelotyping in a field
environment and methods of such population-scale HLA genotyping. The
individual components of the system are portable to and operable within a
field environment thereby providing high throughput with real-time geno-
or allelotyping. Also provided are HLA gene-specific primers and HLA
allele-specific or single nucleotide polymorphism-specific hybridization
probes. In addition the present invention provides a microarray
comprising the hybridization probes. Further provided is a kit comprising
the HLA gene-specific primers and the microarray.