A clinically applicable method for determining the three major alleles at the Duffy (FY) blood group locus using polymerase chain reaction with allele‐specific primers

Abstract

This simple and rapid polymerase chain reaction method was shown to detect the three common alleles at the FY locus in two representative ethnic populations. Its future use as an independent technique in red cell FY investigations and for fetal genotyping in hemolytic disease of the newborn is predicted.