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Comparison of automated short tandem repeat and manual variable number of tandem repeat analysis of chimerism in bone marrow transplant patients.
Diagnostic molecular pathology : the American journal of surgical pathology, part B - 1 Jun 2000
Millson A S, Spangler F L, Wittwer C T, Lyon E
Abstract excerpt
Hematopoietic chimerism can be monitored in bone marrow transplant patients at DNA polymorphic sites. In this study, allele detection and quantification by ethidium bromide-stained agarose gels were compared with automated fluorescent sizing on an artificially mixed system and on chimeric post-transplant whole blood and sorted cell populations. A panel of five variable number of tandem repeats (VNTRs) were...
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