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Temporary suppression of Kidd system antigen expression accompanied by transient production of anti-Jk3.
Transfusion - 1 Jan 1990
Issitt P D, Obarski G, Hartnett P L, Wren M R, Prewitt P L
Abstract excerpt
This report describes an 85-year-old woman of Russian Jewish extraction whose red cell Kidd system phenotype changed during the 2 years in which her blood was studied. Certainly once, and perhaps twice, the patient's phenotype changed from Jk(a+b-) to Jk(a-b-). On both occasions, it reverted to Jk(a+b-). During the first episode of loss of Jka, she formed anti-Jk3. Although this antibody was weak, it was capable...
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