Emergence of FY*Anull in a Plasmodium vivax-endemic region of Papua New Guinea

PA Zimmerman, I Woolley… - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
In Papua New Guinea (PNG), numerous blood group polymorphisms and
hemoglobinopathies characterize the human population. Human genetic polymorphisms of …

A novel FY allele in Brazilians

L Castilho, M Rios, J Pellegrino Jr, STO Saad… - Vox …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The GATA box single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) at position− 33 (T> C) in Blacks
silences the expression of FY* B in erythrocytes, and the substitution 265 C> T, together with …

New genotypes in Fy(a− b−) individuals: nonsense mutations (Trp to stop) in the coding sequence of either FY A or FY B

Rios, Chaudhuri, Mallinson, Sausais… - British journal of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Duffy blood group antigens are carried on a glycoprotein that is predicted to pass through
the erythrocyte membrane seven times and is a promiscuous chemokine receptor. The Fy …

Fya/Fyb antigen polymorphism in human erythrocyte Duffy antigen affects susceptibility to Plasmodium vivax malaria

CL King, JH Adams, J Xianli… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Plasmodium vivax (Pv) is a major cause of human malaria and is increasing in public health
importance compared with falciparum malaria. Pv is unique among human malarias in that …

Duffy blood group and malaria

DM Langhi, J Orlando Bordin - Hematology, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Very important progress has been made over the last years in understanding the Duffy blood
group system and its complexity. The Duffy blood group antigen serves not only as blood …

Molecular mechanisms that lead to reduced expression of Duffy antigens

K Yazdanbakhsh, M Rios, JR Storry, N Kosower… - …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: In the Duffy blood group system, the null phenotype Fy (a–b–) has been
classically associated with a mutated GATA box, while the Fyx phenotype weak Fyb is …

The coding sequence of Duffy blood group gene in humans and simians: restriction fragment length polymorphism, antibody and malarial parasite specificities, and …

A Chaudhuri, J Polyakova, V Zbrzezna, AO Pogo - 1995 - ashpublications.org
The coding and untranslated flanking sequences of Duffy gene (FY) in humans and simians
are in a single exon. The difference between the two codominant alleles, FY* A and FY* B, is …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular basis of the Duffy blood group system

G Höher, M Fiegenbaum, S Almeida - Blood Transfusion, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
ACKR1, located on chromosome 1q23. 2, is the gene that encodes a glycoprotein
expressing the Duffy blood group antigens. This gene is transcribed in two mRNA variants …

The Fyx phenotype is associated with a missense mutation in the Fyb allele predicting Arg89Cys in the Duffy glycoprotein

ML Olsson, JS Smythe, C Hansson… - British journal of …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
The molecular basis of the three major alleles (Fya/Fyb/Fy) of the Duffy (FY) blood group
system has recently been established but the Fyx phenotype associated with weak …

A clinically applicable method for determining the three major alleles at the Duffy (FY) blood group locus using polymerase chain reaction with allele‐specific primers

ML Olsson, C Hansson, ND Avent, IE Akesson… - …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND: The clinically significant antigens of the Duffy (Fy [FY]) blood group system
are expressed on the red cell form of the FY glycoprotein, a promiscuous chemokine …