Probability of finding HLA-matched unrelated marrow donors for Koreans and Japanese from the Korean and Japan marrow donor programs

Tissue Antigens

Volumn 53, Issue 4 I, 1999, Pages 347-349

  Oh, Heung Bum ^a,b   Kim, S I ^b   Park, M H ^c   Akaza, T ^d   Juji, T ^d  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Korean Red Cross   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japanese; JMDP; KMDP; Korean; Unrelated bone marrow transplantation

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; DONOR; ETHNIC GROUP; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JAPAN; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGISTER; SIMULATION;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; JAPAN; KOREA; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0032715151     PISSN: 00012815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.1999.530404.x     Document Type: Article

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