The presence of an RHD pseudogene containing a 37 base pair duplication and a nonsense mutation in africans with the Rh D-negative blood group phenotype

Blood

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 12-18

  Singleton, Belinda K ^b   Green, Carole A ^b   Avent, Neil D ^b   Martin, Peter G ^b   Smart, Elizabeth ^b   Daka, Abigail ^b   Narter Olaga, Edwin G ^b   Hawthorne, Linda M ^b   Daniels, Geoff ^a  

^a NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP RH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONSENSE MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; STOP CODON;

EID: 0033957696     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood.v95.1.12     Document Type: Article

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