Article
The Duffy blood system and alcoholic liver disease in Baltimore black patients.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 Jan 2000
Miller J M, Miller J M, Iber F L
Abstract excerpt
Determination of the Duffy antigen status was made in a group of Baltimore patients with alcoholic liver disease. A parallel group of patients with chronic alcoholism but who did not show evidence of liver impairment was studied in a similar manner. An association between the presence of a positive Duffy antigen and alcoholic liver disease could not be demonstrated.
Topics
- Alcoholism
- Black People
- Blood Group Antigens
- Duffy Blood-Group System
- Humans
- Liver Diseases, Alcoholic
- Maryland
- Phenotype
- Black or African American