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ABO blood group in Kuwaitis: detailed allele frequency distribution and identification of novel alleles.
Transfusion - 1 May 2006
Yip Shea Ping, Choi Pik Shan, Lee Sau Yin, Leung Kim Hung, El-Zawahri Mokhtar M, Luqmani Yunus A
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BACKGROUND: The ABO blood group is clinically the most important blood group system and can now be genotyped easily by DNA-based methods without family studies. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Samples (n = 166) from a Kuwaiti population were phenotyped by standard serologic techniques for the ABO blood group and genotyped for the ABO locus by an established multiplex polymerase chain reaction protocol followed by...
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