Blood, 1960, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 1788-1794.
© 1960 American Society of Hematology, Inc.
A Second Example of Blood Group B3
LEON N. SUSSMAN 1,
HANNAH PRETSHOLD 1, and
MORTIMER J. LACHER 1
1 Blood Bank, Beth Israel Hospital, New York, N. Y.
A second example of an unusual B gene, named B3 by Moullec, has been
presented, with a family study. Absorption and elution tests and studies of
the saliva of a mother and her daughter established this group as a genetically
determined subgroup of B. In our opinion, the substance found in the saliva
of these individuals and of so called "aberrant secretors" of groups A2 and
A2B may be so specific as to require their specific cell types in order to demonstrate their presence or absence.
Submitted on June 1, 1960
Accepted on September 10, 1960
