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BLOOD GROUP--LUTHERAN SYSTEM

Summary

A complex blood group system having pairs of alternate antigens and amorphic genes, but also subject to a dominant independently segregating repressor. [from MeSH]

Genes See tests for all associated and related genes

  • Also known as: AU, B-CAM, CD239, F8/G253, LU, MSK19, BCAM
    Summary: basal cell adhesion molecule (Lutheran blood group)

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