HLA-B and toxic epidermal necrolysis: A study conducted in Taiwan showed that screening patients for the HLA-B*15:02 allele before the initiation of carbamazepine treatment and withholding carbamazepine from HLA-B*15:02–carrying patients can reduce the incidence of carbamazepine-induced Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis among patients of Han Chinese origin [167].