Human platelet antigens: Typing by PCR using sequence-specific primers and their distribution in blood donors resident in Wales

European Journal of Immunogenetics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 393-397

  Sellers, J ^a   Thompson, J ^a   Guttridge, M G ^a   Darke, C ^a  

^a Welsh Blood Service   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN; PRIMER DNA; THROMBOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BLOOD DONOR; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINLAND; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTIGENS, HUMAN PLATELET; BLOOD DONORS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WALES;

EID: 0032761571     PISSN: 09607420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2370.1999.00176.x     Document Type: Article

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