An easy RHD genotyping strategy for D- East Asian persons applied to Korean blood donors

Transfusion

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2128-2137

  Luettringhaus, Timo A ^b   Cho, Duck ^b   Ryang, Dong Wook ^b   Flegel, Willy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RHESUS D ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ETHNIC GROUP; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; KOREA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD DONORS; EXONS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KOREA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM;

EID: 33750220254     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2006.01042.x     Document Type: Article

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