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The experience of extended blood group genotyping by next-generation sequencing (NGS): investigation of patients with sickle-cell disease.
Vox sanguinis - 1 Nov 2016
Fichou Y, Mariez M, Le Maréchal C, Férec C
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BACKGROUND: Patients suffering from haemoglobinopathies may be treated by red blood cell (RBC) transfusion on a regular basis and then exposed to multiple antigens with a recurrent, potential risk of alloimmunization routinely prevented by extended RBC antigen cross-matching. While time-consuming and labour-intensive serological analyses are the gold standard for RBC typing, genotyping by current high-throughput...
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