Approximately half of the erythroblasts in maternal blood are of fetal origin

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1162-11135

  Troeger, C ^a   Zhong, X Y ^a   Burgemeister, R ^b   Minderer, S ^b   Tercanli, S ^a   Holzgreve, W ^a   Hahn, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Frauenärzte und Genetik ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Fetal erythroblasts; Maternal blood; Prenatal diagnosis; Single cell PCR

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ERYTHROBLAST; FETUS; FETUS CELL; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MATERNAL BLOOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ERYTHROBLASTS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032748776     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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