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Relative frequencies of the two O alleles of the histo-blood ABH system in different racial groups.
Vox sanguinis - 1 Jan 1995
Franco R F, Simões B P, Zago M A
Abstract excerpt
O blood group results from the absence of glycosyltransferase activity, which is due most commonly to a single nucleotide deletion in the glycosyltransferase gene. A second type of O allele resulting from three nucleotide substitutions in the glycosyltransferase gene had its frequency recently determined in a Danish population. However, its frequency among different human populations is not known. The frequencies...
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