An update on the LAN blood group system

Lilian Castilho

doi:10.2478/immunohematology-2025-005

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An update on the LAN blood group system

Immunohematology

Volume 41 (2025): Issue 1 (March 2025)

By: Lilian Castilho

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Abstract

This update on the LAN blood group system (Peyrard T. A review of the Lan blood group system. Immunohematology 2013; 29:131–5) reports new ABCB6 alleles encoding Lan– and Lan(+^wk) phenotypes and new functional aspects of the ABCB6 glycoprotein. The L AN blood group system (International Society of Blood Transfusion system 33) consists of one antigen: Lan.

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