Support of unrelated stem cell donor searches by donor center-initiated HLA typing of potentially matching donors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Schmidt, Alexander H ^a   Solloch, Ute V ^a   Baier, Daniel ^a   Grathwohl, Alois ^a   Hofmann, Jan ^a   Pingel, Julia ^a   Stahr, Andrea ^a   Ehninger, Gerhard ^b  

^a DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Center   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HLA MATCHING; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; MALE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DONOR; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TEST; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 79956306821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020268     Document Type: Article

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