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Researchers from Georgetown University, Department of Pediatrics detail new studies and findings in the area of cord blood

Published in Blood Weekly, June 7th, 2007

Current study results from the report, "HLA haplotypes in Singapore: a study of mothers and their cord blood units," have been published. "During 2005, a total of 174 cord blood units with their paired maternal samples from the Singapore Cord Blood Bank were typed for HLA-A, -B, -C at intermediate resolution and DRB1 at allelic resolution. Analysis of allele segregation in mother and child assigned 185 different four locus (HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1) haplotypes in Chinese, 66 in Malays, and 34 in Asian Indians," scientists in the United States report.

"Very few four locus haplotypes were shared among population groups. To evaluate the frequencies of four locus haplotypes,...

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