Cord blood banks collect units with different HLA alleles and haplotypes to volunteer donor banks: A comparative report from Swiss Blood stem cells

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 771-778

  Meyer Monard, S ^a   Passweg, J ^b   Troeger, C ^a   Eberhard, H P ^c   Roosnek, E ^b   de Faveri, G Nicoloso ^d   Chalandon, Y ^b   Rovo, A ^a   Kindler, V ^b   Irion, O ^b   Holzgreve, W ^a   Gratwohl, A ^a   Muller C ^c   Tichelli, A ^a   Tiercy, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c German National Bone Marrow Donor Registry   (Germany)

^d Swiss Blood Stem Cells   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD BANK; BLOOD DONOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SWITZERLAND; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; VOLUNTEER;

ALLELES; BLOOD BANKS; FETAL BLOOD; GENE FREQUENCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; REGISTRIES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 67349205555     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2008.391     Document Type: Article

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