ABO Blood Groups and Acute Respiratory Virus Disease

ABO Blood Groups and Disease

AMost geneticists beliezve that genetic factors are inzolv!ed in susceptibility and resistance to many "non-Mendelizing" human diseases. It seems, therefore, reasonable to look for disease associations among genetic polymorphisms, and a great deal of work has already been done with blood groups in this field. Dr. Vogel summarizes his extensive experience with this approach in thefirst annotatio...

ABO blood groups and renal disease.

This study compares the frequency of ABO blood group distribution between 184 patients with renal parenchymal diseases and 3,820 apparently healthy subjects. The renal diseases were confirmed by renal biopsy studies in all patients. The distribution of renal patients among the blood groups was significantly different (p less than 0.01) from the blood group distribution of normal subjects. The d...

ABO blood groups and rheumatic heart disease.

Controls.-The controls were drawn from the same population as the patients. The ABO blood group distribution was known for a large series (28,566) of "current" and "resigned" blood donors normally resident in the County Borough of Belfast and these were used as controls. The blood donors' distribution has been used to compute the expected distributions of the patients on the hypothesis that pat...

ABO blood groups and Parkinson's disease.

THE PIONEERING work of Aird, Bentall and Roberts demonstrated a significant excess of blood group A in patients with carcinoma of the stomach. Blood group distribution in diseases of the central nervous system has received little attention. Strang, in the only reported investigation on Parkinson's disease, found an increased incidence of blood group 0 in a series of 450 patients in Sweden. This...

ABO blood groups and vitiligo.