Duffy blood group
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Duffy blood group
a red blood cell ANTIGEN found in certain human racial groups, controlled by a single autosomal gene on chromosome 1. Around 65% of Caucasians and 99% of Chinese are positive for the antigen being either homozygous or heterozygous for the allele Fy+, while 92% of West Africans are not, being homozygous for Fy- alleles.Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
Duffy,
surname of the patient in whom this antigen was first found in 1950.Duffy antigen - may be related to resistance to malarial infection.
Duffy blood group
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