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Molecular biology of partial D and weak D: implications for blood bank practice.
Clinical laboratory - 1 Jan 2002
Flegel Willy A, Wagner Franz F
Abstract excerpt
Two genes, RHD and RHCE, encode the antigens of the RH blood group system. The clinically most important antigen D is determined by the presence of a functional and grossly normal RHD gene. About 18% of Europeans do not express an antigen D, most often but not always caused by the RHD gene deletion. Rhesus negative phenotypes in Africans are caused by the RHD gene deletion, the RHD pseudogene RHD psi, and the...
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