Rhesus blood group cluster

Pathology

• antigen implicated in transfusion reactions
• implicated in hemolytic disease of the newborn & erythroblastosis fetalis

Biochemistry

• consists of 50 defined blood-group antigens
• 5 antigens D, C, c, E, & e are the most important
• Rh positive & Rh negative refer to the D antigen

More general terms

• blood group locus

Additional terms

• blood group Rh(D) polypeptide; rhesus D antigen; RHXIII; Rh polypeptide 2; RhPII; CD240D (RHD)
• Rh isoimmunization (Rh disease)

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/111700