RHD allele distribution in Africans of Mali

BMC Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Wagner, Franz F ^a,b,e   Moulds, Joann M ^c   Tounkara, Anatole ^d   Kouriba, Bourema ^d   Flegel, Willy A ^a,b  

^a German Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service Baden Württemberg Hessen and University Hospital Ulm   (Germany)

^b Inst Clin Trans Med Immunogenet   (Germany)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine   (Mali)

^e Institute Springe   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; LEUCINE; PHENYLALANINE; RHESUS D ANTIGEN; THYMIDINE;

AFRICA; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEGRO; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALI; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 1442293220     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-4-14     Document Type: Article

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