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The chance of excluding from paternity a falsely accused Chinese man and a falsely accused Malay man by using a number of blood genetic marker systems have been calculated using the ABO, Rhesus and MNSs systems, the combined chances are. 46.4% for a Chinese and 50.2% for a MaIay. When serum protein and red cell enzyme systems are included, the chances increase to approximately 76%. The chances may be increased by testing for haemoglobin variants, by red cell typing for the Diego (Di^a)
antigen, and by testing for phenotypes other than Gm(a) in the Gm system. The Kell system may in some circumstances provide evidence in favour of paternity.

Matched MeSH terms: Blood Group Antigens*

Blood group in relation to oral Fordyce's granules and serum cholesterol level

Diajil AR, Goodson ML

J Oral Pathol Med, 2023 Jul;52(6):521-527.

PMID: 37038041 DOI: 10.1111/jop.13432

BACKGROUND: The ABO and Rh systems are the most commonly used blood-group systems used to classify blood group globally. A number of studies have shown that ABO blood groups may be associated with an increased serum cholesterol levels which in turn may be related to the presence of oral Fordyce spots or granules. Oral Fordyce's granules are ectopic sebaceous glands within the oral cavity and are visible through epithelium. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between ABO and Rhesus blood groups and the presence of oral Fordyce's granules and serum cholesterols level by gender.

METHODS: Following ethical approval and informed consent, 124 subjects were recruited into this cross-sectional study. Clinical oral examination assessed the number of Fordyce's granules and blood samples were collected to determine the serum cholesterol and ABO/Rh blood-group systems of individual subjects.

RESULTS: Blood group AB+ showed the highest mean of oral Fordyce's granules number and serum cholesterol level but this was not statistically significant compared to other blood groups. Female subjects in this study who were AB+ were had significantly higher serum cholesterol levels than males.

CONCLUSION: This study indicates an association between ABO blood group, serum cholesterol level and mean number of oral Fordyce's granules. A larger sample size in a future study is required to ascertain whether number of Fordyce's granules is an important measure of serum cholesterol, but the study does show that for AB+ individuals, females may have higher serum cholesterol than males.

Matched MeSH terms: Blood Group Antigens*

Seminal stains--identification and grouping

Singh S, Ow Yong Heng Khuan

Med J Malaya, 1965 Jun;19(4):298-302.

PMID: 4220855

Matched MeSH terms: Blood Group Antigens

Perbandingan filogenetik protein antigen-I yang berpotensi sebagai calon diagnostik dan vaksin terhadap Parasit Cryptocaryon Irritans)

Lokanathan Y, Adura Mohd-Adnan, Sheila Nathan

Sains Malaysiana, 2016;45:1969-1979.

Protein antigen-i parasit ikan C. irritans berpotensi tinggi digunakan sebagai calon dalam pembangunan vaksin komersial terhadap C. irritans. Walau bagaimanapun, kewujudan variasi pada antigen-i serotip C. irritans yang berbeza mempengaruhi tahap perlindungan yang bakal diberikan terhadap varians C. irritans yang berbeza apabila antigen-i digunakan sebagai vaksin. Kajian ini dijalankan untuk membandingkan jujukan pelbagai antigen-i pencilan C. irritans di Malaysia berbanding antigen-i pencilan C. irritans yang pernah dilaporkan. Perbandingan filogenetik dijalankan untuk meramalkan potensi protein tersebut dalam usaha membangunkan calon serodiagnostik dan pemvaksinan terhadap pencilan C. irritans yang berlainan. Penjajaran jujukan berbilang bagi jujukan asid amino antigen-i dilakukan dengan perisian CLUSTALX dan analisis filogenetik antigen-i dilakukan menggunakan kaedah parsimoni maksimum (MP) dan kaedah Bayes. Sembilan transkrip unik (TU) C. irritans yang mempunyai padanan signifikan dengan antigen-i di pangkalan data protein NCBI didapati mempunyai peratus kesamaan antara 41% hingga 71%. Kedua-dua pohon MP dan Bayesian yang dijana menunjukkan varians antigen-i cn56 and cn57 terkelompok bersama dalam satu kumpulan manakala varians antigen-i yang lain terbahagi kepada dua kumpulan berasingan dan pengkelompokan ini disokong oleh kehadiran asid amino yang terpulihara dalam kumpulan masing-masing. Kajian lanjutan boleh dilakukan untuk mengenal pasti varians antigen-i yang sesuai sebagai calon serodiagnosis dan juga dapat memberi perlindungan silang terhadap pelbagai pencilan C. irritans di serata dunia.

Matched MeSH terms: Blood Group Antigens

Fulltext Comparison of Abtectcell III and Diamed red cell antibody screening kit for detection of clinically significant red cells alloantibody

Syed Azim SM, Muhamad NA, Leong CF, Hussin NH

Malays J Pathol, 2015 Aug;37(2):109-14.

PMID: 26277667 MyJurnal

Antibody screening is important for the antenatal screening and pre-transfusion tests. This study aimed to compare the MUT/Mur kodecytesAbtectcell III (CSL Abtectcell III) red cell antibody screening kit with DiaMed ID-Dia Cell I-II-III Asia that was then used in our laboratory. In this study, 125 samples were randomly chosen, with 67 samples of known antibody specificities and 58 samples identified as negative for antibody, as the negative control. Concordant negative results were obtained in 57 out of 58 antibody negative samples. Concordant antibody positive results with both reagents were seen in 49 out of 67 samples. There were 18 discrepant results of antibody screening with CSL Abtetcell III (16/18 for vMNS antibodies). The sensitivity and specificity for CSL Abtectcell III were 73.0% and 98.3% respectively. In conclusion, the CSL Abtectcell III reagent would be an acceptable alternative for screening of red cell alloantibodies. It was able to detect all the clinically significant alloantibodies.

Matched MeSH terms: Blood Group Antigens/immunology*

Duffy phenotypes in Malaysian populations: correction of previous unusual findings

Lewis GE, Miller LH, Ibrahim L, Wong PW, McGinniss M, Ooi WL

Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, 1988;82(3):509-10.

PMID: 3068862

Duffy phenotypes were determined for 314 Malaysian Orang Asli. The most common gene, Fya, was present in 313; there were no Duffy negative individuals. A previous study found evidence of Plasmodium vivax infection in 5 of 7 Orang Asli reported to be of the Duffy negative genotype. In this study, 5 of the 7 previously tested Orang Asli were retested in triplicate, and each of the 5 was found to be Duffy positive, having the Fya gene and a phenotype of Fy (a + b-).

Matched MeSH terms: Blood Group Antigens*

Xga blood group in Chinese, Malays and Indians in Singapore

Saha N, Banerjee B

Vox Sang, 1973;24(6):542-4.

PMID: 4722836

Matched MeSH terms: Blood Group Antigens*

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE COMMON CAUSES OF BLOODSTAIN DETERIORATION. II. EFFECT OF PERSPIRATION AND SALIVA ON BLOOD GROUPING

SINGH S, KUNG TT

Med J Malaysia, 1964 Jun;18:262-8.

PMID: 14199444

Matched MeSH terms: Blood Group Antigens*

ABSENCE OF DI-A IN MALAYAN ABORIGINES

CHIN J

Nature, 1964 Mar 07;201:1039.

PMID: 14191583

Matched MeSH terms: Blood Group Antigens*

Interrelation of serum cholesterols, ABO-Rh blood groups and body fat

Banerjee B, Saha N

Med J Malaya, 1969 Sep;24(1):41-4.

PMID: 4243842

Matched MeSH terms: Blood Group Antigens*

The prevalence, immunogenicity, and evanescence of alloantibodies to MUT and Mur antigens of GP.Mur red blood cells in a Southeast Asian patient cohort

Nadarajan VS

Transfusion, 2018 05;58(5):1189-1198.

PMID: 29441590 DOI: 10.1111/trf.14538

BACKGROUND: Antibodies to Mia , MUT, and Mur are among the most frequently identified alloantibodies in Southeast Asia. Understanding the characteristics of these antibodies in terms of induction and evanescence would aid in optimizing methods for their detection.

STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Antibody testing results between the years 2013 and 2015 with relevant patient demographic data and red blood cell (RBC) transfusion history were retrieved. Cumulative alloimmunization incidence and evanescence to MUT and Mur were estimated by Kaplan-Meier analysis in relation to the number of RBC units transfused and time.

RESULTS: Of 70,543 selected patients, 6186 nonalloimmunized subjects with available antibody testing results posttransfusion were identified. Cumulative alloimmunization incidence for MUT increased from 0.12% (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.03-0.21) to 0.63% (95% CI, 0.25-1.01), while for Mur it increased from 0.04% (95% CI, 0-0.09) to 0.42% (95% CI, 0.05-0.79) when a patient was transfused 2 RBC units as compared to 12. Both antibodies had high evanescence rates and at 1 year, anti-MUT and -Mur will be detected in only 45% (95% CI, 35%-57%) and 27% (95% CI, 17%-43%), respectively, of previously positive patients. MUT and Mur immunogenicity was estimated to be 1.7 and 1.2 times higher than E when their rate of evanescence was taken into account.

CONCLUSION: Antibodies to MUT and Mur develop following multiple RBC exposures. Immunogenicity of MUT/Mur and evanescence rates of the corresponding antibodies is higher compared to anti-E. Appropriate selection of antibody screening cells is needed in view of the high prevalence, immunogenicity, and evanescence of the antibodies.

Matched MeSH terms: Blood Group Antigens/immunology*

Fulltext Ethanolic Extract of Polygonum minus Protects Differentiated Human Neuroblastoma Cells (SH-SY5Y) against H2O2-Induced Oxidative Stress

Sayuti NH, Zulkefli N, Tan JK, Saad N, Baharum SN, Hamezah HS, et al.

Molecules, 2023 Sep 20;28(18).

PMID: 37764502 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28186726

Neuronal models are an important tool in neuroscientific research. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), a major risk factor of neuronal oxidative stress, initiates a cascade of neuronal cell death. Polygonum minus Huds, known as 'kesum', is widely used in traditional medicine. P. minus has been reported to exhibit a few medicinal and pharmacological properties. The current study aimed to investigate the neuroprotective effects of P. minus ethanolic extract (PMEE) on H2O2-induced neurotoxicity in SH-SY5Y cells. LC-MS/MS revealed the presence of 28 metabolites in PMEE. Our study showed that the PMEE provided neuroprotection against H2O2-induced oxidative stress by activating the Nrf2/ARE, NF-κB/IκB and MAPK signaling pathways in PMEE pre-treated differentiated SH-SY5Y cells. Meanwhile, the acetylcholine (ACH) level was increased in the oxidative stress-induced treatment group after 4 h of exposure with H2O2. Molecular docking results with acetylcholinesterase (AChE) depicted that quercitrin showed the highest docking score at -9.5 kcal/mol followed by aloe-emodin, afzelin, and citreorosein at -9.4, -9.3 and -9.0 kcal/mol, respectively, compared to the other PMEE's identified compounds, which show lower docking scores. The results indicate that PMEE has neuroprotective effects on SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells in vitro. In conclusion, PMEE may aid in reducing oxidative stress as a preventative therapy for neurodegenerative diseases.

Matched MeSH terms: Blood Group Antigens*

Genetic markers of an aboriginal Taiwanese population

Chen KH, Cann H, Chen TC, Van West B, Cavalli-Sforza L

Am J Phys Anthropol, 1985 Mar;66(3):327-37.

PMID: 3857010

A group of Taiwan aborigines, the Toroko, was typed for 21 classical genetic loci. This is part of an ongoing program aimed at a comprehensive study of Taiwan aborigines. In this first paper a short summary of historical, archeological, and anthropological data in the literature is made, and results of the present survey are compared with older results from other aborigine tribes. An analysis of other neighboring populations from southeast Asia has also been carried out in order to give a preliminary answer to the question of origin of Taiwanese aborigines. Fifteen populations were studied for 13 loci by tree analysis, principal components, and isolation by distance. Tree analysis and principal component analysis gave results in fairly good agreement and indicate three major population clusters: a northeast cluster (Ainu, Korea, Japan, and Ryukyu); a southeast cluster (south China, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, and Toroko); and a third cluster including Malaya and Borneo. The positions of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia are somewhat peripheral. Analysis of the tree shows some potential cases of convergence, perhaps owing to admixture, and of divergence. The analysis of isolation by distance shows that geographic propinquity is a reasonably good predictor of general similarity in this area.

Matched MeSH terms: Blood Group Antigens/genetics

Erythrocyte Alloimmunity and Genetic Variance: Results from the Collaborative Study of Alloimmunity to Antigen Diversity in Asian Populations (All ADP)

Takeshita A, Watanabe H, Yamada C, Nadarajan VS, Permpikul P, Sinkitjasub A, et al.

Transfus Apher Sci, 2020 Oct;59(5):102944.

PMID: 33228922 DOI: 10.1016/j.transci.2020.102944

As an East-Asian international study, we evaluated erythrocyte alloimmunity by gender and history of transfusion or pregnancy. In total, data from more than 1,826,000 patients were analyzed, from whom 26,170 irregular erythrocyte antibodies were detected in 22,653 cases. Antibody frequencies in these cases were as follows: anti-E, 26.8%; anti-Lea, 20.0%; anti-P1, 7.1%; anti-M, 6.4%; anti-Mia, 5.6%; anti-c + E, 5.6%; anti-Leb, 4.6%; anti-D, 2.8%; anti-Fyb, 2.6%; anti-Lea+Leb, 2.5%; anti-Dia, 2.0%; and others. For pregnant patients, anti-D (12.7%) was statistically more frequent. For transfused patients, anti-E (37.3%), anti-c + E (9.5%), anti-C + e (3.3%) and anti-Jka (3.1%) were significantly more frequent.

Matched MeSH terms: Blood Group Antigens

Fulltext Anti-G with concomitant anti-C and anti-D: A case report in a pregnant woman

Yousuf R, Mustafa AN, Ho SL, Tang YL, Leong CF

Asian J Transfus Sci, 2017 3 21;11(1):62-64.

PMID: 28316444 DOI: 10.4103/0973-6247.200770

The G antigen of Rh blood group system is present in almost all D-positive or C-positive red cells but absent from red cells lacking D and C antigens. The differentiation of anti-D and anti-C from anti-G is not necessary for routine transfusion; however, during pregnancy, it is important because anti-G can masquerade as anti-D and anti-C with initial antibody testing. The false presence of anti-D will exclude the patient from receiving anti-D immunoglobulin (RhIG) when the patient actually is a candidate for RhIG prophylaxis. Moreover, patients with positive anti-D or anti-G are at risk of developing hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn and need close monitoring. Thus, proper identification allows the clinicians to manage patients properly. This case report highlights a rare case of anti-G together with anti-D and anti-C in a pregnant woman. This report disseminates knowledge on identification of anti-G and its importance in pregnant women.

Matched MeSH terms: Blood Group Antigens

Molecular blood group typing in Banjar, Jawa, Mandailing and Kelantan Malays in Peninsular Malaysia

Abd Gani R, Manaf SM, Zafarina Z, Panneerchelvam S, Chambers GK, Norazmi MN, et al.

Transfus Apher Sci, 2015 Aug;53(1):69-73.

PMID: 25819336 DOI: 10.1016/j.transci.2015.03.009

In this study we genotyped ABO, Rhesus, Kell, Kidd and Duffy blood group loci in DNA samples from 120 unrelated individuals representing four Malay subethnic groups living in Peninsular Malaysia (Banjar: n = 30, Jawa: n = 30, Mandailing: n = 30 and Kelantan: n = 30). Analyses were performed using commercial polymerase chain reaction-sequence specific primer (PCR-SSP) typing kits (BAG Health Care GmbH, Lich, Germany). Overall, the present study has successfully compiled blood group datasets for the four Malay subethnic groups and used the datasets for studying ancestry and health.

Matched MeSH terms: Blood Group Antigens/genetics*

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