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Biological Factors > Antigens > Isoantigens > Blood Group Antigens > Kell Blood-Group System
Biological Factors > Antigens > Antigens, Surface > Blood Group Antigens > Kell Blood-Group System

Preferred term

Kell Blood-Group System  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • IM; coord with disease /blood (IM), not /immunol nor /genet; TN 230

Scope note

  • Multiple erythrocytic antigens that comprise at least three pairs of alternates and amorphs, determined by one complex gene or possibly several genes at closely linked loci. The system is important in transfusion reactions. Its expression involves the X-chromosome.

History note

  • 91(76); was see under BLOOD GROUPS 1976-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007626

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