Lewis genotyping by the PCR-RFLP method in a Japanese population and its evaluation in forensic analysis.

doi:10.1007/s004140050075

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Lewis genotyping by the PCR-RFLP method in a Japanese population and its evaluation in forensic analysis.

International journal of legal medicine - 1 Jan 1997

Ameno S, Ameno K, Kinoshita H, Tanaka N, Ijiri I

Abstract excerpt

Lewis phenotyping of red blood cells has many problems such as the influence of many biological conditions, the change during the period from newborn to early childhood and mistyping by non-specific anti-Lewis antibodies. Therefore, it would be useful to determine the Lewis genotype. Recently a method of Le-genotyping by PCR-RFLP was established. We determined the frequencies of Lewis genotypes in a Japanese...

Topics

Asian People
Female
Fetal Blood
Gene Frequency
Genetics, Population
Genotype
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Japan
Lewis Blood Group Antigens
Male
Paternity
Phenotype
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
Pregnancy

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PMID: 9274952
DOI: 10.1007/s004140050075

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