Hi Mary
I'm Neil Avent the coordinator of the Bloodgen project, which included Progenika that developed Bloodchip in the EU between 2003-2006.
Bloodchip is able to type 106 blood group specific SNPs including all clinically significant known blood group polymorphisms (ABO,RH,KEL,MNS,FY,DO,DI,CO). The Bloodchip kit also comes with Software that is able to demonstrate effectively RHD variants. The chip is undergoing CE marking in Europe for RHCE, KEL and eventually RHD diagnostics, and the process has also been initiated with the FDA.
The capacity of the chip is such that all new polymorphisms will be added, and Progenika are currently adding a large number of the HPA polymorphisms in response to customer requests, also LU antigens are being added as well. If anyone is interested in trialling the system I suggest that they contact John Otridge of Progenika inc, Boston, MA for further details. (jotridge@progenika.com). Their website gives a significant amount of detail on the kit (www.progenika.com) as does my personal URL with my recent presentations and papers (http://science.uwe.ac.uk/StaffPages/NA/).
best wishes
Neil