1. A further example of human blood group chimaerism
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M C Crookston, S Moore, I O Szymanski, C A Tilley, and T J Greenwalt
- Subjects
Adult ,Erythrocytes ,Sex Chromosomes ,Human blood ,Chimera ,Alanine Transaminase ,Karyotype ,Fibroblasts ,Biology ,ABO Blood-Group System ,Pedigree ,Andrology ,Chimera (genetics) ,Karyotyping ,ABO blood group system ,Immunology ,Genetics ,Chromosomes, Human ,Humans ,Female ,Lymphocytes ,Genetics (clinical) ,Skin ,Research Article - Abstract
Blood group chimaerism was detected in a healthy fertile woman, not known to be a twin. Her peripheral lymphocytes had a male karyotype (46/XY); fibroblasts cultured from her skin had a female karyotype (46/XX). The mechanism of chimaerism could not be established.
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- 1977