Analysis of hlgh-resolution human leukocyte antigen matching status for the unrelated donor-receipt pairs matched at low-resolution for HLA-A, HLA-B and HLA-DRB1 / 中华检验医学杂志

le full matching for unrelated donor-receipt pairs. However, HLA-Cw mismatching at antigen level could no longer be ignored. The results indieated that HLA-Cw genotyping should be incorporated into future CMDP unrelated marrow donor routine HLA test.

Study on the gene polymorphism of Auberger antigens in Chinese population / 中华医学遗传学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study the gene polymorphism of the Auberger antigens in Lutheran blood group system in Chinese population and establish a stable, accurate molecular method detecting Auberger antigens.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Peripheral blood samples from 162 randomly collected and unrelated volunteer blood donors were directly sequenced for the exon 12 at the gene locus of Auberger antigens. PCR products with novel nucleotide were further investigated by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Auberger genotypes in the 162 Chinese individuals were obtained: Au(a+ b- )(nt1615A) was found in 119 individuals, Au(a+ b+ ) (nt1615A/G) in 40 individuals and Au(a- b+ ) (nt1615G) in 3 individuals. The allele frequencies of the Au(a) and Au(b) were 0.8580 and 0.1420, respectively. An individual with homozygous Au(a) genotype had a nucleotide mutation (1595 G to T). The mutation was confirmed by digesting the DNA with Hha I.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The distribution of gene polymorphism of Auberger antigens in a Chinese population was investigated and obtained. And a molecular method determining the Auberger antigen was established. A novel Lutheran allele was deposited in GenBank (accession number EU260043).</p>

Study of the Association of diabetic retinopathy with 2 candidate genes / 中国输血杂志

Objective To study the relationship between diabetic retinopathy(DR) and Landsteiner-Wiener,Indian blood group genes.Methods Peripheral blood samples were collected from 50 DR patients,and 160 unrelated volunteer blood donors(the control).CDNA,including LW gene generated by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR),was subjected to sequence analysis,and the genomic DNAs,extracted from each sample,were sequenced directly for LW gene and IN gene.Woolf method was used for calculating relative risk(RR).Results In the 160 control samples,there was A at the nt380 locus in Exon1 of the LW gene,which were genotyped as LWa;and there was G at the nt252 locus in Exon2 of the IN gene,which were genotyped as INb.All the 53 samples from DR patients were LWa homozygous genotypes and all INb homozygous genotypes.Conclusion These two candidate genes are not associated with the incidence of DR.

Review of 2597 cases of blood transfusion and evaluation of the appropriateness / 中国输血杂志

Objective To investigate the clinical use of blood in Shenzhen,in order to make the blood transfusion more appropriate and safer.Methods The medical records of 2 597 blood transfusion receipts from 3 hospitals in 2006 were reviewed.The use of blood components in each department,unreasonable prescriptions of very small amount of blood transfusion,and the combined transfusion of RBC and plasma were analyzed.Results The proportion of reasonable transfusion of RBC,plasma,platelet concentrates and cryoprecipitate were 66.44%,24.65%,97.97% and 61.29%,respectively.These proportion were 91.54%,51.85%,98.86%,and 100%,respectively,in internal medicine department,and 50.22%,19.86%,89.58%,42.86%,respectively,in surgery department.Unreasonable prescription of low-volume blood transfusion and the combined transfusion of RBC and plasma were 47.05% and 51.17%.Conclusion Except for plasma transfusion,the internal medicine departments did fairly well in blood component transfusion.Since the unreasonable transfusion still exists,the clinical doctors should be further trained in the appropriate use of blood,and get rid of the old practice of whole-blood-dependence.