ABO Blood Groups and Human Fertility

ABO blood groups and human fertility.

The fact that those who lack the blood group antigen A have anti-A antibody, and those who lack B have anti-B (Landsteiner, 1900, 1901), leads in a number of cases to an incompatibility between maternal serum and foetal antigens inherited from the father. Such serologically incompatible pregnancies have been thought to be a possible cause of various morbid conditions in foetus or mother (e.g., ...

ABO blood groups and vitiligo.

ABO blood groups and leprosy.

Leprosy and ABO blood groups.

Cases were selected from the Skin Out-patients Department and Leprosy Clinic of S.S. Hospital, Banaras Hindu University and the Leprosy Clinic at Chowka Ghat, Varanasi. Patients belonging to any other province or country were excluded. Blood was grouped by the slide method described by Stratton and Renton (1958). The control material consisted of data on 2583 recipients of blood at the hospital...

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...