Regional HLA Differences in Poland and Their Effect on Stem Cell Donor Registry Planning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Schmidt, Alexander H ^a,b   Solloch, Ute V ^a   Pingel, Julia ^a   Sauter, Jürgen ^a   Böhme, Irina ^b   Cereb, Nezih ^c   Dubicka, Kinga ^d   Schumacher, Stephan ^a,d   Wachowiak, Jacek ^e   Ehninger, Gerhard ^f  

^a DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Center   (Germany)

^b DKMS Life Science Lab   (Germany)

^c Histogenetics   (United States)

^d DKMS Polska   (Poland)

^e POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN; HLA DRB1 ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR; EFFECT SIZE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HAPLOTYPE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; POLAND; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STEM CELL DONOR;

ALLELES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MALE; POLAND; REGISTRIES; STEM CELLS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84884172495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073835     Document Type: Article

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