An assessment of the effectiveness of the search for unrelated hematopoietic stem cell donors for russian patients in the registry of Kirov Research Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Federal Medical and Biological Agency of Russia

We assessed the effectiveness of the registry of Kirov Research Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, Federal Medical and Biological Agency of Russia, with a total of 35,117 hematopoietic stem cell donors recruited in 22 regions of the Russian Federation (as of 01 January 2019). It was established that a relatively small registry would be sufficient to find at least one fully matched donor for 43% of Russian patients. The sufficient representativeness of this hematopoietic stem cell donor registry is confirmed by the high concordance of established HLA haplotype profiles between the population of donors and the cohort of patients for whom a search of a matching donor was performed. This study was approved by the Independent Ethics Committee and Scientific Council of Kirov Research Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, FMBA of Russia.