HLA-E polymorphism in patients with recurrent spontaneous abortion

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 569-572

  Steffensen, Rudi ^a,c   Christiansen, O B ^a   Bennett, E P ^b   Jersild, C ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Dept of Oral Funct and Physiology   (Denmark)

^c Regl Ctr Blood Transfus Clin I   (Denmark)

Author keywords

HLA E; PCR SSO; Recurrent spontaneous abortion; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT ABORTION;

EID: 0032408504     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1998.tb03088.x     Document Type: Article

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