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The highly variable RH locus in nonwhite persons hampers RHD zygosity determination but yields more insight into RH-related evolutionary events.
Transfusion - 1 Mar 2005
Grootkerk-Tax Martine G H M, Maaskant-van Wijk Petra A, van Drunen Judith, van der Schoot C Ellen
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BACKGROUND: Knowledge about paternal RHD hemi- or homozygosity is of clinical interest in alloimmunized pregnant women. D negativity in white persons is usually caused by deletion of the RHD gene. Recently, the physical structure of the RH locus and the mechanism causing the deletion of the RHD g...
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