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Allele frequencies and molecular genotyping of the ABO blood group system in a Kuwaiti population.
International journal of hematology - 1 Feb 2002
Al-Bustan Suzanne, El-Zawahri Mokhtar, Al-Azmi Daleil, Al-Bashir Abdul-Aziz
Abstract excerpt
The phenotypic distributions of observed numbers of ABO blood groups in a Kuwaiti sample population of 18,558 subjects are 4962 (26.7%) with A, 4,462 (24.1%) with B, 858 (4.6%) with AB, and 8,276 (44.6%) with 0. The calculated gene frequencies are 0.6678 for ABO*O, 0.1768 for ABO*A, and 0.1554 for ABO*B. Molecular genotyping of the ABO blood group system in a Kuwaiti sample population was determined using...
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