On the Nomenclature of the Anti-Rh Typing Serums: Report of the Advisory Review Board

Autor: William B. Castle, Laurence H. Snyder, Maxwell M. Wintrobe
Rok vydání: 1948
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Zdroj: Science. 107:27-31
ISSN: 1095-9203
0036-8075
DOI: 10.1126/science.107.2767.27
Popis: AT THE REQUEST OF THE SURGEON GENERAL of the U. S. Public Health Service, the Review Board convened in Washington on October 20 and 21, 1947. Formal evidence bearing on the question of the nomenclature of the anti-Rh typing serums was presented by 8 of the outstanding producers and users of such serums in the United States. Informal statements and discussions were offered by several others of the large group present at the hearing. Two systems of nomenclature stand out above all those which have been proposed, and these two systems are in wide use. One of the systems is based on the series of allelic genes proposed by Wiener; the other, on the series of three closely linked pairs of genes proposed by Race and Fisher, of England. A comparison of the individual antiserums of the two systems would be as follows
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