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Rare HLA alleles and their predicted haplotypes in Tzu Chi Taiwanese marrow donor registry.
International journal of immunogenetics - 1 Jun 2011
Yang K L, Chen M J, Shyr M H, Lin C L, Lin P Y
Abstract excerpt
The marrow donor registry of Buddhist Tzu Chi Stem Cells Centre (BTCSCC) maintained an HLA database of 291677 bone marrow volunteer donors from 1993 to 2008. From the 291677 donors we identified 28 rare alleles and discovered six novel alleles in Taiwanese. Our criterion of a rare allele was according to the definition, set by the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), one having a frequency of 0.002% (1/50,000)...
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