Tetragametic chimerism detected in a healthy woman with mixed-field agglutination reactions in ABO blood grouping

Transfusion

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 698-703

  Drexler, Camilla ^b   Glock, Barbara ^b   Vadon, Maria ^b   Staudacher, Erika ^b   Dauber, Eva Maria ^b   Ulrich, Silvia ^b   Reisacher, Rosemarie B K ^b   Mayr, Wolfgang R ^b   Lanzer, Gerhard ^b   Wagner, Thomas ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD GROUP AB; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP O; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CASE REPORT; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME G BAND; CYTOTOXICITY TEST; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FATHER; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; MOLECULAR TYPING; MOUTH; NAIL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING; CHIMERA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE;

EID: 20844433042     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2005.04304.x     Document Type: Article

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