Background: Vitiligo is a common disease. Its etiology is not known, but 30% of patients have a positive family history. Studies have been done on the influence of ABO and Rh blood groups on susceptibility to some diseases. Objective: The purpose of this case-control study was to evaluate the association of ABO and Rh blood groups with vitiligo. Patients and Methods: This study was performed on...

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...

the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of hepatitis b, hepatitis c, hiv and syphilis infections in blood donors referred to tehran blood transfusion center (tbtc), and determine any association between blood groups and blood- borne infections between the years of 2005 and 2011.this was a retrospective study conducted at tbtc. all of the donor serum samples were screened for hbv...

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...

many investigations have proved relations between abo blood groups with some diseases and factor viii and von willebrand level in plasma. in this study we investigated a relation between abo blood groups and factor viii and ix inhibitors in 102 patients with haemophilia a and 48 patients with haemophilia b. the assay of inhibitor was done by bethesda method. there were no relation between abo b...

Recent studies have reported that the ABO gene can affect circulating expression levels of soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (sICAM-1) and soluble P-selectin (sP-selectin) in Caucasians. However, several factors may affect the association, including the distribution and variations of the ABO gene, ethnic diversity and the inflammatory response status. The aim of the present study was to...