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Prevalence of RHD alleles in Japanese individuals with weak D phenotype: Identification of 20 new RHD alleles.
Vox sanguinis - 1 Oct 2016
Isa K, Sasaki K, Ogasawara K, Saito M, Tsuneyama H, Yabe R, Uchikawa M, Satake M
Abstract excerpt
We identified 46 different RHD alleles from 226 Japanese individuals with weak D phenotype, 26 of which had been previously described and 20 that were novel. Among these weak D individuals, the alleles with c.960G>A, c.845G>A (RHD*15) or c.1013T>C (RHD*01W.24) mutations were most prevalent with relative occurrences of 36·7%, 15·9% and 9·7%, respectively. These findings demonstrate that the prevalence of common...
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