Specimen:

Whole Blood

Minimum:

THREE - FOUR 10 mL yellow top (ACD) tubes or purified genomic DNA.  For 
patients with low white counts-additional tubes are needed.  Buccal 
swabs may be used if normal sample requirements can not be met.

Delivery Instructions:

Deliver at room temperature.

Analytic Time:

10 days

Comments:

Order each allele separately.

Methodology:

Polymerase Chain Reaction(PCR) - Sequence Specific Oligonucleotide 
(SSO) or Sequence Specific Primers (SSP)

CPT Code:

83891(x1) each
83900(x1) each
83894(x1) each
83912(x2) each
83896(x83) A
83896(x100) B
83896(x56) C
For HLA-A use modifier (4A)
    HLA-B use modifier (4B)
    HLA-C use modifier (4C)

See Additional Information:
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