Weak A phenotypes associated with novel ABO alleles carrying the A 2 -related 1061C deletion and various missense substitutions

Transfusion

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1471-1486

  Hult, Annika K ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Yazer, Mark H ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Jørgensen, René ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Hellberg, Åsa ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Hustinx, Hein ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Peyrard, Thierry ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Palcic, Monica M ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Olsson, Martin L ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b University and Regional Laboratories   (Sweden)

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

^d CARLSBERG LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^e Blood Transfusion Service (Swiss Red Cross)   (Switzerland)

^f INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA TRANSFUSION SANGUINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP ABO SYSTEM; BLOOD GROUP TYPING; CODING; CODON; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE; EXON; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

ABO BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; ALLELES; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 77954340282     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: 15372995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1537-2995.2010.02670.x     Document Type: Article

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