Article
On the importance of being heterozygote -- Effects of Rh-genotype on the physical and mental health of a non-clinical population
2024-01-30
Abstract excerpt
Human populations, especially European, are polymorphic in the RHD gene. A significant fraction of their members carries two copies of a mutated (deleted) allele, which results in their Rh-negative blood type. Theoretically, this polymorphism should be unstable. Carriers of the less frequent allele are penalized by reduced fertility because of the immunization of Rh-negative mothers by their Rh-positive babies, wh...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2fae4f1f-af7f-5cb6-8cec-185bf0c9617b
- DOI
- 10.22541/au.170665178.82118287/v1
