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The Duffy antigen was discovered in 1950, in a multiply transfused hemophiliac. Important progress has since been made in understanding the Duffy blood group system and its complexity. The Duffy...
Patients with sickle cell anemia are chronically transfused. Therefore, it is important to prevent the alloimmunization of RBC antigens. The authors identified a high frequency antigen-negative blood group in patients...
BACKGROUND: In the Duffy blood group system (Fy(a), Fy(b), Fy(x), and Fy antigens), Fy(x) antigen is associated with weak Fy(b) while Fy antigen means the null phenotype Fy (a-b-). Fyx...
BACKGROUND: Knowledge about the frequency of red blood cell-antigen phenotypes in a population can be helpful in the creation of a donor data bank for the preparation of indigenous cell...
BACKGROUND: Duffy (FY) blood group genotyping is important in transfusion medicine because Duffy alloantibodies are associated with delayed hemolytic transfusion reactions and hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn. In...