Novel 3'Rhesus box sequences confound RHD zygosity assignment

Transfusion

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 645-650

  Matheson, Kimberly A ^a,b,c   Denomme, Gregory A ^a,b,c  

^a CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; RHD FUSION PROTEIN, HUMAN; RHO(D) ANTIGEN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXON; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEGRO; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOGENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; EXONS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PSEUDOGENES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0036560615     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2002.00078.x     Document Type: Article

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