World Marrow Donor Association guidelines for use of HLA nomenclature and its validation in the data exchange among hematopoietic stem cell donor registries and cord blood banks

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 737-741

  Bochtler, W ^a   Maiers, M ^a   Oudshoorn, M ^a   Marsh, S G E ^a   Raffoux, C ^a   Mueller, C ^a   Hurley, C K ^a  

^a World Marrow Donor Association   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DONOR; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HLA SYSTEM; HLA TYPING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NOMENCLATURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; STANDARDIZATION; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOLUNTEER;

BLOOD BANKS; FETAL BLOOD; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 34250176823     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1705672     Document Type: Article

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