New Bead Array Technology Able to Provide Rapid Comprehensive DNA Typing of Blood Donors
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BioArray Solutions has today announced the publication of a study, conducted jointly by investigators at New York Blood Centre and BioArray Solutions, to evaluate the performance of a new HEA (Human Erythrocyte Antigen) BeadChip Test. According to BioArray Solutions, the BeadChip Test, comprising a set of 18 genetic markers, reliably produced results equivalent to those of either serological hemagglutination or manual restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and allele-specific PCR analysis of individual markers, but in a manner substantially accelerating throughput. Results have been published in the May edition of Transfusion (Journal of the American Association of Blood Banks).