Different alleles cause an imbalance in A2 and A2B phenotypes of the ABO blood group

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 242-247

  Ogasawara, Kenichi ^a,d   Yabe, Ryuichi ^a   Uchikawa, Makoto ^b   Bannai, Makoto ^a   Nakata, Kenichi ^a   Takenaka, Michiko ^a   Takahashi, Yuji ^a   Juji, Takeo ^b   Tokunaga, Katsushi ^b,c  

^a Tokyo Red Cross Blood Center   (Japan)

^b Japan Red Cross Ctrl Blood Center   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d Japanese Red Cross Society   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING; HUMANS; JAPAN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; TRANSFERASES;

EID: 0031878765     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000030942     Document Type: Article

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