Between light and dark, the chimera comes out

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 327-330

  Lipsker, Dan ^a,b   Flory, Elisabeth ^a,c   Wiesel, Marie Louise ^d   Hanau, Daniel ^b,d,e   De La Salle, Henri ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^c Service de Cytogénétique   (France)

^d ETABLISSEMENT FRANÇAIS DU SANG   (France)

^e Histocompatibility Laboratory   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP; CASE REPORT; CELL POPULATION; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ERYTHROCYTE; FIBROBLAST; HAPLOTYPE; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; KARYOTYPING; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MICROCHIMERISM; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN COLOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

CHILD; CHIMERISM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; MALE; PEDIGREE; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS;

EID: 41149139492     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.144.3.327     Document Type: Article

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