HLA-B*15:02 is a strong and specific risk factor for CBZ-induced SJS/TEN (Chung et al., 2004; Tassaneeyakul et al., 2010; Shi et al., 2017), but we did not find any significant association between HLA-B*15:02 and CBZ-induced MPE or AED-MPE in the present study (Supplementary Table S2). Here, HLA-B is linked to toxic epidermal necrolysis.