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Platelet alloantigen frequencies in Amazon Indians and Brazilian blood donors.
Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) - 1 Sept 2000
Chiba A K, Bordin J O, Kuwano S T, Figueiredo M S, Carvalho K I, Vieira-Filho J P, Kerbauy J
Abstract excerpt
The frequencies of human platelet-specific alloantigens (HPAs) vary between different ethnic groups, and genotyping using DNA techniques has been preferred over immunophenotyping methods for population studies. Using a polymerase chain reaction with allele-specific primers (PCR-ASP) method, we determined the allelic polymorphisms of five HPA systems among 174 unrelated individuals of two different Brazilian...
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