High-resolution human leukocyte antigen allele and haplotype frequencies of the Polish population based on 20,653 stem cell donors

Human Immunology

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 558-565

  Schmidt, Alexander H ^a   Solloch, Ute V ^a   Pingel, Julia ^a   Baier, Daniel ^a   Böhme, Irina ^b   Dubicka, Kinga ^c   Schumacher, Stephan ^a,c   Rutt, Claudia ^a   Skotnicki, Aleksander B ^d   Wachowiak, Jacek ^e   Ehninger, Gerhard ^f  

^a DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Center   (Germany)

^b DKMS Life Science Lab   (Germany)

^c DKMS Polska   (Poland)

^d JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allele frequency; Donor registry; Haplotype frequency; HLA; Matching probability

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN;

ACCURACY; ALLELE; ARTICLE; DONOR; HAPLOTYPE; HLA MATCHING; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEM CELL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALLELES; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLAND; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STEM CELLS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 79958266463     PISSN: 01988859     EISSN: 18791166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2011.03.010     Document Type: Article

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