Corpus ID: 21878380

A modified PCR-RFLP genotyping method demonstrates the presence of the HPA-4b platelet alloantigen in a North American Indian population.

@article{Reiner1997AMP,
  title={A modified PCR-RFLP genotyping method demonstrates the presence of the HPA-4b platelet alloantigen in a North American Indian population.},
  author={A. Reiner and G. Teramura},
  journal={Immunohematology},
  year={1997},
  volume={13 2},
  pages={
          37-43
        }
}

• A. Reiner, G. Teramura
• Published 1997
• Biology, Medicine
• Immunohematology

The diallelic HPA-4 (Pen/Yuk) platelet alloantigen system is polymorphic in Asian populations and accounts for the majority of cases of neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia in Japan. At the molecular level, the HPA-4a/4b dimorphism is associated with an arginine/ glutamine substitution at amino acid 143 of the gene encoding platelet glycoprotein IIIa. Unlike the five other major diallelic human platelet antigen systems (HPA-1, -2, -3, -5, and -6), the nucleotide substitution corresponding to… Expand

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