Heterozygosity for two novel null alleles of the KEL gene causes the Kell-null phenotype in a Japanese woman

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 220-225

  Koda, Yoshiro ^a   Soejima, Mikiko ^a   Tsuneoka, Makoto ^a   Yasumoto, Kiyoshi ^b   Higashitani, Takanori ^c   Sagawa, Kimitaka ^c   Kimura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Yasumoto Hospital   (Japan)

^c KURUME UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kell blood group; Ko phenotype; Null allele

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA;

AGED; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP KELL SYSTEM; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; EXON; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CODE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONSENSE MUTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NULL ALLELE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOP CODON;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CODON, NONSENSE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; KELL BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0036227438     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.2002.03368.x     Document Type: Article

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