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IT has been repeatedly found that a blood-group antigen thought to be a part of a ‘new’ blood-group system is in fact part of an old one; Tja is now part of the P system; U, Vw and Mia of the MNSs system. Concerning the more recently reported ‘new’ antigen Dia, publications up to, and including, that of Levine and Robinson1 have shown its inheritance to be independent of the genes of the ABO, MNSs, P, Rh, Lewis and Kidd systems, and that it is not identical with any of six previously described antigens of low frequency, Ven, Ca, Bea, Wra, Bya and Rm. That it is not part of the Duffy or Kell system has not been proved.
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Levine, P., and Robinson, E. A., Blood, 12, 447 (1957).
Lewis, M., Kaita, H., and Chown, B., Amer. J. Hum. Genet., 9, 274 (1957).
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CHOWN, B., LEWIS, M. & KAITA, H. Diego as an Independent Blood-Group System. Nature 181, 1598–1599 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811598b0
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