Extensive polymorphism of ABO blood group gene: Three major lineages of the alleles for the common ABO phenotypes

Human Genetics

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 777-783

  Ogasawara, Kenichi ^a   Bannai, Makoto ^a   Saitou, Naruya ^b   Yabe, Ryuichi ^a   Nakata, Kenichi ^a   Takenaka, Michiko ^a   Fujisawa, Kiyoshi ^a   Uchikawa, Makoto ^c   Ishikawa, Yoshihide ^c   Juji, Takeo ^c   Tokunaga, Katsushi ^c,d  

^a Japanese Red Cross Society   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^c Japan Red Cross Ctrl Blood Center   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE FREQUENCY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAPAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 15844366741     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02346189     Document Type: Article

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