Development of a laboratory project to determine human ABO genotypes-limitations lead to further student explorations

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 361-368

  Salerno, Theresa A ^a  

^a MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ABO genotype; Allele specific PCR; O variants; Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP); Single stranded conformation polymorphism (SSCP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450216537     PISSN: 14708175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bmb.20322     Document Type: Article

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