Molecular background of VS and weak C expression in blacks.

doi:10.1046/j.1537-2995.1997.37197176949.x

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Molecular background of VS and weak C expression in blacks.

Transfusion - 1 Jan 1997

Faas B H, Beckers E A, Wildoer P, Ligthart P C, Overbeeke M A, Zondervan H A, von dem Borne A E, van der Schoot C E

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BACKGROUND: The Rh system is complex and consists of as many as 45 different antigens. Red cells of about 25 percent of the black population carry VS an Rh-system antigen (Rh20), but this antigen is very rare in whites. VS positivity is always associated with a weak expression of e, and usually a...

Topics

Africa, Northern
Black People
Blotting, Southern
Genome, Human
Humans
Phenotype
Rh-Hr Blood-Group System
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Suriname

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