Variant screening of the RHD gene in a large cohort of subjects with D phenotype ambiguity: Report of 17 novel rare alleles

Transfusion

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 759-764

  Fichou, Yann ^a   Le Maréchal, Cédric ^a   Bryckaert, Laurence ^a   Guerry, Christine ^a   Bénech, Caroline ^a   Dupont, Isabelle ^a   Jamet, Déborah ^a   Férec, Claude ^a   Chen, Jian Min ^a  

^a CHU MORVAN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHESUS D ANTIBODY;

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; BLOOD SAMPLING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; DIRECT SEQUENCING; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; SEROLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALLELES; COHORT STUDIES; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM;

EID: 84859781464     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2011.03350.x     Document Type: Article

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