Thread: How did you choose your transplant center?
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Old Sun Sep 12, 2010, 12:52 PM
mausmish mausmish is offline
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Some references
Wiki has some explanations about the lingo, although I don't claim it's an easy read. The CD45, CD14, etc. are referring to proteins that help identify types of cancer and other cell abnormalities. You can also try looking them up in Wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome_abnormality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karyotype
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytogenetics
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/con...ent=a713544803

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosomy (loss/deletion of chromosome)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisomy (addition of chromosome)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal_inversion (rearrangement)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosomal_translocation (translocation)
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