Heterogeneity of the O alleles at the blood group ABO locus in Amerindians

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 46-50

  Olsson, Martin L ^a   Santos, Sidney E B ^b,c   Guerreiro, Joao F ^b,c   Zago, Marco A ^b   Chester, M Alan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c University of Para   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ALLELE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ALLELES; BRAZIL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 0031973746     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000030902     Document Type: Article

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