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Point mutations characterize KEL10, the KEL3, KEL4, and KEL21 alleles, and the KEL17 and KEL11 alleles.
Transfusion - 1 Jun 1996
Lee S, Wu X, Son S, Naime D, Reid M, Okubo Y, Sistonen P, Redman C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The Kell blood group system is complex, consisting of five sets of alleles and expressing high- and low-incidence antigens and at least 11 other independently expressed antigens. The molecular basis of two sets of alleles: KEL1 (K) and KEL2 (k) and KEL6 (Jsa) and KEL7 (Jsb) have been...
Topics
- Alanine
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Arginine
- Base Sequence
- Codon
- DNA
- Exons
- Glutamic Acid
- Glutamine
- Humans
- Kell Blood-Group System
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Point Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Tryptophan