Molecular background of the ABO blood group system;Molekularne podstawy UKładu grupowego ABO

Postepy Higieny i Medycyny Doswiadczalnej

Volumn 62, Issue , 2008, Pages 4-17

  Smolarek, Dorota ^a   Krop Wątorek, Anna ^a   Was̈niowska, Kazimiera ^a,b   Czerwiński, Marcin ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY   (Poland)

^b OPOLE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

ABO blood group system; Antigens ABO(H); Glycosyltransferases A and B; Polymorphism of ABO gene

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASE; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REVIEW;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GALACTOSYLTRANSFERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES;

EID: 39349106494     PISSN: 00325449     EISSN: 17322693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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