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Fetal blood group genotyping: present and future.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Sept 2006
Daniels Geoff, Finning Kirstin, Martin Pete, Summers Jo
Abstract excerpt
Prediction of fetal blood group from DNA is usually performed when the mother has antibodies to RhD, to assess whether the fetus is at risk from hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN). Over the last five years RhD testing on fetal DNA in maternal plasma has been introduced. At the International Blood Group Reference Laboratory (IBGRL) we employ real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RQ-PCR)...
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