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Molecular identification of Knops blood group polymorphisms found in long homologous region D of complement receptor 1
1 May 2001
Abstract excerpt
Complement receptor 1 (CR1) has been implicated in rosetting of uninfected red blood cells to Plasmodium falciparum-infected cells, and rosette formation is associated with severe malaria. The Knops blood group (KN) is located on CR1 and some of these antigens, ie, McCoy (McC) and Swain-Langley (Sl(a)), show marked frequency differences between Caucasians and Africans. Thus, defining the molecular basis of these...
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