A splicing mutation of the RHAG gene associated with the Rh(null) phenotype

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 107-113

  Kawano, M ^a   Iwamoto, S ^a   Okuda, H ^a   Fukuda, S ^b   Hasegawa, N ^b   Kajii, E ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tochigi Red Cross Blood Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; RHESUS ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ERYTHROCYTE; EXON; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RETICULOCYTE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ADOLESCENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RETICULOCYTES; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AMORPHA;

EID: 0031713059     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003480098006769     Document Type: Article

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