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Sero- and molecular typing of Duffy blood group in Southeast Asians and Oceanians.
Human biology - 1 Jun 2000
Shimizu Y, Ao H, Soemantri A, Tiwawech D, Settheetham-Ishida W, Kayame O W, Kimura M, Nishioka T, Ishida T
Abstract excerpt
Duffy blood group was studied among malaria-endemic Thai and Indonesian populations: Hmong (n = 103), Akha (n = 218), Lisu (n = 44), Bugis (n = 95), Toraja (n = 77), Dani (n = 44), Mee (n = 80) and Irianese (n = 81). Phenotypes were studied by the ordinal indirect Coombs' test and genotypes were determined by the polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) test. DNA analysis was...
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