Disclosed is a registry for candidate transfusion donors, which invokes an
inventory management policy to create and actively manage lists of
candidate donors in order to minimize imbalances between demand and
supply across multiple regions and across multiple categories of donors
and recipients. Together with a genotyping laboratory, the registry does
targeted recruitment of prospective donors who are typed for a set of
genetic markers relating to clinically relevant antigens including
mutations of Human Erythrocyte Antigens (HEA), genetic variants of Rh,
and possibly additional antigens such as HLA and HPA. The registry
monitors incoming demand for transfusion antigen genotypes, preferably
stratify the demand into a set of categories representing stable
subpopulations, and will apply strategies, disclosed herein, to tune the
composition of candidate donor lists to match the demand, thereby
avoiding excess, and unnecessary, typing of candidate donors.