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The functional A allele was resurrected via recombination in the human ABO blood group gene.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jul 2012
Kitano Takashi, Blancher Antoine, Saitou Naruya
Abstract excerpt
Functional A and B alleles are distinguished at two critical sites in exon 7 of the human ABO blood group gene. The most frequent nonfunctional O alleles have one-base deletion in exon 6 producing a frameshift, and it has the A type signature in two critical sites in exon 7. Previous studies indicated that B and O alleles were derived from A allele in human lineage. In this study, we conducted a phylogenetic...
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