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A dispermic chimerism detected in a Taiwanese potential unrelated hematopoietic stem cell donor.
HLA - 1 Feb 2017
Yang E K L, Marsh S G E, Chen P-Y, Chen C-P, Chen S-P, Lin P Y
Abstract excerpt
Chimerism is defined as the presence of 2 or more than 1 genetically distinct cell populations in an organism. Dispermic chimeras are derived from the fertilization of 1 or 2 matured nuclei by 2 sperms. We here report detection of a healthy and phenotypically normal female with normal ABO red blood cell typing in whom dispermic chimerism was suspected after 3 alleles were identified at multiple human leukocyte...
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