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SEVERAL cases of rare deviations from normal Rh gene complexes have been found in different populations. Among these deviating forms two gene complexes with weak antigen expressions, D(C)(e) denoted by R=N and d(c)(e), denoted by rL, have been found in Sweden1,5. The complex D–– (which produces only a D antigen) and the equivalent d–– or ––– complex (which produces no antigens at all) are probably responsible for cases in which mother and child appear to have opposite homozygosity. Several examples of this have been reported, some of them from Sweden5.
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RASMUSON, M., HEIKEN, A. Frequency of Occurrence of the Human Rh Complexes D(C)(e), d(c)(e), D –– and –––. Nature 212, 1377–1379 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2121377a0
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