Review: The molecular basis of the Rh blood group phenotypes

Immunohematology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-36

  Wagner, Franz F ^a   Flegel, Willy A ^b  

^a Zentralinstitut Springe   (Germany)

^b Inst Klin Transfusionsmed/I Ulm   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; RHESUS D ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY REACTIONS; BLOOD PROTEINS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; EPITOPES; GENES; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMANS; ISOANTIBODIES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM;

EID: 1442275829     PISSN: 0894203X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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