Chimerism and mosaicism are important causes of ABO phenotype and genotype discrepancies

Immunohematology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 183-187

  Cho, Duck ^a   Lee, Jin Sol ^a   Yazer, Mark Harris ^b   Song, Jong Won ^a   Shin, Myung Geun ^a   Shin, Jong Hee ^a   Suh, Soon Pal ^a   Jeon, Mee Jeong ^c   Kim, Ji Young ^d   Park, Jong Tae ^d   Ryang, Dong Wook ^a  

^a Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Gwangju Chonnam Red Cross Blood Center   (South Korea)

^d Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

Author keywords

ABO; Chimerism; Discrepancy; Genotype; Mosaicism; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHIMERA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOSAICISM; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ADULT; BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING; CHIMERISM; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MOSAICISM; PEDIGREE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33846897130     PISSN: 0894203X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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