Simultaneous Genotyping for Factor V Leiden and Prothrombin G20210A Variant by a Multiplex PCR-SSCP Assay on Whole Blood

Thromb Haemost 1999; 81(01): 162-163
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1614436

Letters to the Editor

Schattauer GmbH

Michael Meyer

¹ Faculty of Medical Engineering, University of Applied Sciences (FH) Jena

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Gerlinde Kutscher

¹ Faculty of Medical Engineering, University of Applied Sciences (FH) Jena

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Günther Vogel

² Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Erfurt, Germany

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