Rh phenotype prediction by DNA typing and its application to practice.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-3148.1998.00173.x

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Rh phenotype prediction by DNA typing and its application to practice.

Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) - 1 Dec 1998

Flegel W A, Wagner F F, Müller T H, Gassner C

Abstract excerpt

The complexity of the RHD and RHCE genes, which is the greatest of all blood group systems, confounds analysis at the molecular level. RH DNA typing was introduced in 1993 and has been applied to prenatal testing. PCR-SSP analysis covering multiple polymorphisms was recently introduced for the sc...

Topics

Blood Transfusion
DNA
Humans
Phenotype
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational
Rh-Hr Blood-Group System

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