The Duffy blood system and alcoholic liver disease in Baltimore black patients.
Determination of the Duffy antigen status was made in a group of Baltimore patients with alcoholic liver disease. A parallel group of patients with chronic alcoholism but who did not show evidence of liver impairment was studied in a similar manner. An association between the presence of a positive Duffy antigen and alcoholic liver disease could not be demonstrated.
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000235:genetics*; D044383:Black People; D001789:Blood Group Antigens / Q000235:genetics*; D004375:Duffy Blood-Group System / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008108:Liver Diseases, Alcoholic / Q000235:genetics*; D008396:Maryland; D010641:Phenotype; D001741:Black or African American
D001789:Blood Group Antigens; D004375:Duffy Blood-Group System