Distribution of weak D types in the Croatian population

Transfusion Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 278-279

  Dogic, V ^a   Bingulac Popovic, J ^a   Babic, I ^a   Hundric Haspl, Z ^a   Jurakovic Loncar, N ^a   Mratinovic Mikulandra, J ^b   Vuk, T ^c   Balija, M ^d   Jukic, I ^a  

^a CITM   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

^c Department of Quality Control and Quality Assurance ^*  (Croatia)

^d Medical Department   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RHESUS D ANTIBODY; RHESUS D ANTIGEN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ERYTHROCYTE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEROLOGY;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CROATIA; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM;

EID: 79960144864     PISSN: 09587578     EISSN: 13653148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2011.01071.x     Document Type: Letter

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