Sequences variations in 5′-flanking region of ABO gene and correlation with ABO alleles in the indigenous Chinese

Vox Sanguinis

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 227-233

  Yan, L ^a,b   Zhu, F ^a,b   Liu, Y ^a,b   Xu, X ^a,b   Hong, X ^a,b  

^a BLOOD CENTER OF ZHEJIANG PROVINCE   (China)

^b BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

5 UTR; ABO blood group; Haplotype; Phenotype; Variation

Indexed keywords

ABO GENE; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; CHINA; CHINESE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; CHINA; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 40749150652     PISSN: 00429007     EISSN: 14230410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1423-0410.2007.01013.x     Document Type: Article

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