Three molecular structures cause rhesus D category VI phenotypes with distinct immunohematologic features

Blood

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2157-2168

  Wagner, Franz F ^b   Gassner, Christoph ^b   Müller, Thomas H ^b   Schönitzer, Diether ^b   Schunter, Friedrich ^b   Flegel, Willy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RHESUS D ANTIBODY; RHESUS D ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; NEWBORN HEMOLYTIC DISEASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHESUS INCOMPATIBILITY;

EID: 0032521490     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v91.6.2157     Document Type: Article

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