<i>RHCE</i> variants inherited with altered <i>RHD</i> alleles in Brazilian blood donors

Abstract

Targeting individuals with altered expression of D antigen can be a good strategy for finding donors with RhCE variants. In our study 94·9% of the partial D samples revealed altered RHCE variant alleles and 5·7% of the samples with altered RHD allele predicted partial c, partial e and the lack of the high prevalence hr(B) and hr(S) antigens.