Progress in the study of ABO blood group system

Legal Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-6

  Takizawa, Hisao ^a   Kominato, Yoshihiko ^a   Shimada, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

ABH antigen; ABO blood group system; ABO genes; Anti enzyme antibody; Glycosyltransferase; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GROUP ABH ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; GLOBOSIDE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE;

BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE; GENE; HUMAN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0034092099     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(00)80001-2     Document Type: Review

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