Frequency of platelet‐specific alloantigens in a Danish population

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This study reports the first data on gene frequencies of platelet alloantigens HPA-1, HPA-2, HPA-3, HPA-4 and HPA-5 in a population of unrelated Danish blood donors using PCR-techniques. The observed gene frequencies fit the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, and the calculated phenotype frequencies are similar to those obtained in other Caucasian populations: HPA-1a and -1b occur in 96.6% and 30.3% of 557 unrelated...