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ABO — Rh Interaction A study of Jive cases*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Prasanta Kumar Chattopadhyay*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi
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Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, Delhi 7, India

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Five families with cases of erythroblastosis foetalis have been studied for the ABO, Rh, MN, and Kell-Cellano blood group systems. In all of them, the father and mother were found to be compatibly mated, and so were the children with their mother, in all systems, except Rh.

Most children were of CDe/cde type, and all mothers cde/cde. The influence of other systems (MN and Kell-Cellano) on Rh incompatibility remains to be investigated. They might play a role in counteracting the effect of Rh incompatibility.

The antibody titre in the mother's blood has clearly appeared to decline gradually, with an increasing time gap between successive pregnancies.

Whether the possibility of having a normal full term pregnancy, resulting in the birth of a healthy child, increases, if the time gap between two successive pregnancies is larger, remains to be investigated.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1970

Footnotes

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This paper is dedicated to the memory of the late Dr. Karl Landsteiner, N.L., the Father of Serology.

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