title: A family showing inheritance of the Anton blood group antigen AnWj and independence of AnWj from Lutheran.
abstract: A 43-year-old Arab woman was found to be negative for the high incidence AnWj antigen and her serum contained anti-AnWj. Two of her seven siblings were also AnWj-negative, which provides evidence for the first time that the AnWj-negative phenotype may be an inherited character. Blood groups of the family, in which the parents of the proposita are consanguineous, show that AnWj is not part of the ABO, Rh, MNSs, Kell, Duffy, Kidd, Xg and, notably, Lutheran blood group systems and neither is it X or Y linked.
authors.affiliation: International Blood Group Reference Laboratory, Bristol, U.K.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Poole
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Levene
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bennett
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sela
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: van Alphen
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Spruell
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies / Q000097:blood; D001788:Blood Grouping and Crossmatching; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D005260:Female; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D006801:Humans; D008188:Lutheran Blood-Group System / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D010375:Pedigree
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D008188:Lutheran Blood-Group System