Molecular characterization of GYPB and RH in donors in the American Rare Donor Program

Immunohematology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 143-147

  Vege, Sunitha ^a   Westhoff, Connie M ^a  

^a Molecular Blood Group and Platelet Testing Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; BLOOD GROUP E ANTIGEN; K ANTIGEN; RHESUS ANTIBODY; RHESUS ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GENE; GENOTYPE; GYPB GENE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; UNITED STATES;

ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; BLOOD DONORS; BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING; GLYCOPHORIN; HUMANS; ISOANTIBODIES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM;

EID: 33750491143     PISSN: 0894203X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. Flickinger C, In search of red blood cells for alloimmunized patients with sickle cell disease. Immunohematol 2006;22:136-42.
2. Noizat-Pirenne F, Lee K, Pennec PY, et al. Rare RHCE phenotypes in black individuals of Afro-Caribbean origin: identification and transfusion safety. Blood 2002;100:4223-31.
3. Reid ME, Storry JR, Issitt PD, et al. Rh haplotypes that make e but not hrB usually make VS. Vox Sang 1997;72:41-4.
4. Storry JR, Reid ME, Fetics S, Huang C. Mutations in the GYPB exon 5 drive the S-s-U+var phenotype in persons of African descent: implications for transfusion. Transfusion 2003;43:1738-47.
5. Westhoff CM. The Rh blood group system in review: a new face for the next decade. Transfusion 2004;44:1663-73.
6. Reid ME, Lomas-Francis C. The blood group antigen factsbook. 2nd ed. San Diego: Academic Press; 2004.
7. Wagner FF, Flegel WA. The Rhesus Site at http://www.uni-ulm.de/~fwagner/ RH/RB/weakD.htm.
8. Blumenfeld OO, Patnaik SK. Allelic genes of blood group antigens: a source of human mutations and cSNPs documented in the Blood Group Antigen Gene Mutation Database. Hum Mutat 2004;23:8-16.
9. Westhoff CM, Silberstein LE, Wylie DE, Reid ME. l6Cys encoded by the RHce gene is associated with altered expression of the e antigen and is frequent in the Ro haplotype. Br J Haematol 2001;113.
10. Westhoff CM. Review: the Rh blood group D antigen... dominant, diverse, and difficult. Immunohematol 2005;21:155-63.
11. Wagner FF, Frohmajer A, Flegel WA. RHD positive haplotypes in D negative Europeans. BMC Genet 2001;2:10.
12. Singleton BK, Green CA, Avent ND, et al. 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 2000;95:12-8.
13. Chiu RW, Murphy MF, Fidler C, et al. Determination of RhD zygosity: comparison of a double amplification refractory mutation system approach and a multiplex real-time quantitative PCR approach. Clin Chem 2001;47:667-72.
14. Faas BHW, Beckers EAM, Wildoer P, et al. Molecular backgound of VS and weak C expression in blacks. Transfusion 1997;37:38-44.
15. Hemker MB, Ligthart PC, Berger L, et al. DAR, a new RhD variant involving exons 4, 5, and 7, often in linkage with ceAR, a new Rhce variant frequently found in African Blacks. Blood 1999;94:4337-42.
16. Lee MT, Piomelli S, Granger S, et al. Stroke Prevention Trial in Sickle Cell Anemia (STOP): Extended Follow-up and Final Results. Blood 2006.
17. Adams RJ, Brambilla DJ, Granger S, et al. Stroke and conversion to high risk in children screened with transcranial Doppler ultrasound during the STOP study. Blood 2004;103:3689-94.