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ABO genotype-phenotype discrepancy due to chimerism resolved by clonal separation

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This research was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2015R1D1A1A01058853).

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  1. Hyung-Seok Yang and Jae Gyun Shin equally contributed to this work as first authors.

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  1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 23, Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02454, Republic of Korea

    Hyung-Seok Yang, John Jeongseok Yang & Tae Sung Park

  2. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Inje University College of Medicine, 75, Bokji-ro, Busanjin-gu, Busan, 47392, Republic of Korea

    Jae Gyun Shin, Ja Young Lee, Hye Ran Kim, Jeong Nyeo Lee & Seung Hwan Oh

  3. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hanmaeum Hospital, 21 Woni-daero, 682 Beon-gil, Seongsan-gu, Changwon, Gyeongsangnam-do, 51497, Republic of Korea

    Jae-Cheol Choi

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Yang, HS., Shin, J.G., Yang, J.J. et al. ABO genotype-phenotype discrepancy due to chimerism resolved by clonal separation. Ann Hematol 96, 1583–1585 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-017-3048-0

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