1. Aird I, Bentall HH, Roberts JA. A relationship between cancer of stomach and the ABO blood groups. Br Med J 1953;1:799-801. 2. Aird I, Bentall HH, Mehigan JA, Roberts JA. The blood groups in relation to peptic ulceration and carcinoma of colon, rectum, breast, and bronchus; an association between the ABO groups and peptic ulceration. Br Med J 1954;2:315-21. 3. Discussion on the ABO blood gro...

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 incompatibility is not a contraindication for allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, but this procedure requires an extra effort for erythrocyte or plasma depletion in certain well established conditions. Some acute or delayed immunohematological complications such as acute or chronic hemolysis and pure red cell aplasia may be encountered. In this study the outcome and transplant related c...

Determinations were carried out of the ABO blood groups and Rhesus phenotypes of a series of 142 children with Perthes' disease. Where possible their parents and sibs were also grouped. Sera from the mothers of affected children were examined for the presence of Rhesus antibodies. No apparent association was demonstrated between Perthes' disease and any ABO phenotype. The disease is also appare...

Red Cells, Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP) and Platelets (RDP/SDP) prepared from donors with group O may have high titers of anti-A, anti-B and/or anti-A,B antibodies. When such components given to non-group patients, this titre can result in haemolytic transfusion reactions (HTRs). Such are generally termed ‘high-titer donors. Significant amounts ABO antigen being present on the platelet surface ant...

ABO genotyping is commonly used in several situations, including blood transfusion, personal identification and disease detection. The present study developed a novel method for ABO genotyping, using loop‑mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP). This method allows the simultaneous determination of six ABO genotypes under 40 min at a constant temperature of 62˚C. The genotypes of 101 blood samp...

The researches of Cohen, Boyd, Goldwasser, Cathcart, and Heisler (1963) on a small number of patients with chronic joint disease of different clinical types showed that there was no association between the ABO blood groups and the chronic rheumatic diseases, but that there was a deficiency of Rh factor. Kornstad, Kornstad, and Guldberg (1965), examining 217 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, f...

In the 1940s and the 1950s, severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia and kernicterus were most often encountered with hemolytic disease of newborn (HDN), which occurs most often as a result of the incompatibilities of the Rh and ABO blood groups. With the advent of prenatal testing, maternal Rh°(D) immunoglobulin, phototherapy, and exchange transfusion, the incidence of severe hyperbilirubinemia dras...