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Winstone, Henderson and Brooke1 did not find ulcerative colitis to be correlated with the ABO blood groups, secretor status, or the rhesus factor. Their Rh classification was, however, restricted to rhesus-positive and rhesus-negative, presumably based on the use of an anti-D serum only. When we recently examined 185 patients in whom ulcerative colitis had led to colectomy, we also did not find any particular relation to D status, but did find, considerably to our surprise, a definite correlation with the homozygous CC rhesus type. Using as controls Wiener's series of 1,071 New York Whites2, we obtained the results shown in Table 1.
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Winstone, N. E., Henderson, A. J., and Brooke, B. N., Lancet, ii, 64 (1960).
Wiener, A. S., and Gordon, E. B., Amer. J. Clin. Path., 19, 621 (1949).
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BOYD, W., HEISLER, M. & OROWAN, E. Correlation between Ulcerative Colitis and Rh Blood Groups. Nature 190, 1123–1124 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1901123a0
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