Background Few studies have documented the blood group antigens in the population of eastern India. Frequencies of some common alleles and haplotypes were unknown. We describe phenotype, allele, and haplotype frequencies in the state of West Bengal, India. Methods We tested 1,528 blood donors at the Medical College Hospital, Kolkata. The common antigens of the ABO, Rhesus, and Kell blood grou...

a total of 3204 abo and rh blood groups were investigated in larestan and lamerd populations, in fars province, in iran. the frequency of the a gene ranged from 16.54% to 21.96, the b gene from 15.85 to 27.77% and that of the d gene from 21.49 to 33.01% ; compared with the gene frequencies of 20.97% for the b and 28.50% for the d in the general population. it seemed that the two populations stu...

AIM To investigate the correlation between breast cancer in Greek women and ABO blood groups. MATERIAL-METHODS In 166 female patients with breast cancer factors such as blood group, histological type, family history, presence or absence of nodal and/or distant metastases were examined. These patients had similar demographic, clinical, surgical, immunohistochemical, laboratory, and follow-up d...

OBJECTIVE To report a case with unusual ABO discrepancies caused by coexistence of the loss of anti-B isoagglutinin and rouleau formation. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 79-year-old female diagnosed as having multiple myeloma (MM) with monoclonal IgG-λ type showed rouleau formation in peripheral blood smear. The ABO and Rh blood type before the diagnosis of MM was A+, but the follow...

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Aim: Many factors affect the diagnostic value of fine-needle aspiration biopsy applied for these thyroid nodules. I aimed to investigate whether one would be ABO blood groups and Rh factor examine relationship with Bethesda categorization. Additionally, evaluate in patients cancer.
 Material Method: This study was planned a cross-sectional retrospective design. The data were obtained from ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the present study was to determine whether there was a relationship between periodontal diseases and ABO blood groups. METHODS This epidemiological study was carried out on 1351 subjects who were randomly selected from individuals referred to the Faculty of Dentistry clinics for periodontal treatment or for other reasons regarding dental health. The study based on pe...

a group of iranian patients suffering from factor viii deficiency (hemophilia a) and treated with contaminated coagulation factor (imported), became seropositive as determined by elisa method. sixty of these individuals, which were available, were studied for abo distribution. the b blood group in anti hiv pos. individuals (13.33%) shows a significant decrease in comparison with the total (1504...