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SMIM1 underlies the Vel blood group and influences red blood cell traits

Homozygosity for a null allele of SMIM1 defines the Vel-negative blood group phenotype

1 posted on 04/10/2013 5:21:22 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem; blam
Posted last week but good to repost it ~ Sa'ami (bunch of the live in Sweden, although I think this group of people in this county are probably fairly mixed) have 15 Times the chance of having VEL blood type than Europeans in general.

I don't know how you get tested for that here, but if you fit the profile you might ask your doctor about it.

2 posted on 04/10/2013 5:29:34 PM PDT by muawiyah
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