Prenatal Determination of Fetal RhD Type by DNA Amplification

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 329, Issue 9, 1993, Pages 607-610

  Bennett, Phillip R ^a   Kim, Caroline le Van ^b   Colin, Yves ^b   Warwick, Ruth M ^a   Cherif Zahar, Baya ^b   Fisk, Nicholas M ^a   Cartron, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA TRANSFUSION SANGUINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHESUS D ANTIBODY;

AMNIOCENTESIS; AMNION CELL; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD SAMPLING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS IMMUNIZATION;

AMNIOTIC FLUID; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETAL DISEASES; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RH ISOIMMUNIZATION; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0027216648     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199308263290903     Document Type: Article

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