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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1.956) was born among the Mahars, an Untouchable community in Maharashtra. Educated in India, the United States, and Great Britain, he became politicized at an early age and fought for revision and abolition of the caste system in India. His life-long struggle for the equality of all peoples is mirrored in his philosophy. Ambedkar believed that casteism and Hinduism, with their emphasis upon the status given by birth, destroyed all principles of freedom and dignity in man. He advocated instead a religion of communal ethics and social change, and to this end embraced Buddhism a few months before his death. His "conversion" began what is now known as the Neo-Buddhist movement, active in local temples and religious media, as well as through such political organizations as the Republican Party., Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 7 Nr. 3-4 (1976): Internationales Asienforum

The Cromer blood group system consists of eight high incidence and three low incidence antigens carried on decay-accelerating factor (DAF). This report describes the identification and characterization of a new Cromer high incidence antigen, named SERF. Sequence analyses of DNA from a Thai female whose serum contained the alloantibody to a high incidence antigen in the Cromer blood group system (anti-SERF) and from her two children were performed. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and sequence analysis on cDNA from the proband and PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis on DNA from Thais were also performed. To map the epitope, DAF deletion mutants were tested by immunoblotting with anti-SERF. Sequence analysis revealed a substitution of 647C>T in exon 5 DAF in the proband. The proband's two children and two of 100 Thais were heterozygotes 647C/T. Analysis using DAF deletion mutants revealed the antigenic determinant to be within short consensus repeat 3 (SCR3), which is encoded by exon 5. This study describes a novel high incidence antigen (SERF) in the Cromer blood group system characterized by the amino acid proline at position 182 in SCR3 of DAF. The SERF-negative proband has a substitution mutation that predicts for leucine at this position. SERF has been provisionally assigned the International Society of Blood Transfusion number 021��012 (CROM 12).

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