H1 and H9 human embryonic stem cell lines are heterozygous for the ABO locus

Stem Cells and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 853-855

  Chen, You Tzung ^a,c   Dejosez, Marion ^b   Zwaka, Thomas P ^b   Behringer, Richard R ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR CELL AND GENE THERAPY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CELL LINE; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EXONS; GENOME, HUMAN; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 58149145664     PISSN: 15473287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/scd.2007.0226     Document Type: Letter

References (11)

1. Thomson JA, J Itskovitz-Eldor, SS Shapiro, MA Waknitz, JJ Swiergiel, VS Marshall and JM Jones. (1998). Embryonic stem cell lines derived from human blastocysts. Science 282:1145-1147.
2. Reubinoff BE, MF Pera, CY Fong, A Trounson and A Bongso. (2000). Embryonic stemcell lines from human blastocysts: somatic differentiation in vitro. Nat Biotechnol 18:399-404.
3. Bradley JA, EM Bolton and RA Pedersen. (2002). Stem cell medicine encounters theimmune system. Nat Rev Immunol 2:859-871.
4. Zwaka TP and JA Thomson. (2003). Homologous recombination in human embryonic stem cells. Nat Biotechnol 21:319-321.
5. Galili U, SB Shohet, E Kobrin, CL Stults and BA Macher. (1988). Man, apes, and Old World monkeys differ from other mammals in the expression of alpha-galactosyl epitopes on nucleated cells. J Biol Chem 263:17755-17762.
6. Clausen H and S Hakomori. (1989). ABH and related histoblood group antigens; immunochemical differences in carrier isotypes and their distribution. Vox Sang 56:1-20.
7. Yamamoto F, H Clausen, T White, J Marken and S Hakomori. (1990). Molecular genetic basis of the histo-blood group ABO system. Nature 345:229-233.
8. Yip SP. (2002). Sequence variation at the human ABO locus. Ann Hum Genet 66:1-27.
9. Seltsam A, M Hallensleben, A Kollmann and R Blasczyk. (2003). The nature of diversity and diversification at the ABO locus. Blood 102:3035-3042.
10. Patenaude SI, NO Seto, SN Borisova, A Szpacenko, SL Marcus, MM Palcic and SV Evans. (2002). The structural basis for specificity in human ABO(H) blood group biosynthesis. Nat Struct Biol 9:685-690.
11. Carpenter MK, ES Rosler, GJ Fisk, R Brandenberger, X Ares, T Miura, M Lucero and MS Rao. (2004). Properties of four human embryonic stem cell lines maintained in a feeder-free culture system. Dev Dyn 229:243-258.