title: Molecular genetic basis of the human Rhesus blood group system.
abstract: The Rhesus (RH) blood group locus is composed of two related structural genes, D and CcEe, that encode red cell membrane proteins carrying the D, Cc and Ee antigens. As demonstrated previously, the RhD-positive/RhD-negative polymorphism is associated with the presence or the absence of the D gene. Sequence analysis of transcripts and genomic DNA from individuals that belong to different Rh phenotypes were performed to determine the molecular basis of the C/c and E/e polymorphisms. The E and e alleles differ by a single nucleotide resulting in a Pro226Ala substitution, whereas the C and c alleles differ by six nucleotides producing four amino acid substitutions Cys16Trp, Ile60Leu, Ser68Asn and Ser103Pro. With the recent cloning of the RhD gene, these findings provide the molecular genetic basis that determine D, C, c, E and e specificities.
authors.affiliation: Unité INSERM U76, Institut National de Transfusion, Sanguine, Paris, France.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mouro
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Colin
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chérif-Zahar
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Cartron
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Le Van Kim
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000235:genetics; D004331:Drosophila melanogaster / Q000235:genetics; D005796:Genes; D006801:Humans; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D012204:Rh-Hr Blood-Group System / Q000235:genetics*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D012204:Rh-Hr Blood-Group System