Blood grouping discrepancies between ABO genotype and phenotype caused by O alleles

Current Opinion in Hematology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 618-624

  Yazer, Mark H ^a,b,d   Hosseini Maaf, Bahram ^c   Olsson, Martin L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

ABO; Allele; Genotype; Nondeletional; O; O2; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GROUP A ANTIGEN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ALLELE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; GOLGI COMPLEX; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYBRID; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; START CODON; STOP CODON;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; AGGLUTININS; ALLELES; BLOOD GROUPING AND CROSSMATCHING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 55149091094     PISSN: 10656251     EISSN: 15317048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOH.0b013e3283127062     Document Type: Review

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