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DURING recent years, many rare blood-group antigens, co-called ‘private’ or ‘family’ antigens, have been discovered. A survey of eleven of these was recently made by van Loghem and his associates, who described two new antigens. Most of the antigens were found exclusively in the members of one family; but as suggested by Dunsford, who studied the Wright system, some of these antigens may be ordinary blood-group factors with a very low frequency. Most of the corresponding antibodies were the results of iso-immunization during pregnancy or by blood transfusion, but a few of them were naturally occurring antibodies.
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Dunsford, J., Vox Sang., 4, 160 (1954).
van der Hart, M., Bosman, H., and van Loghem, J. J., Vox Sang., 4, 108 (1954).
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KISSMEYER-NIELSEN, F. A New Rare Blood-Group Antigen, Chra. Nature 176, 313 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176313a0
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