Kidd blood group locus

Introduction

18q11-q12

Polymorphism

• SLC14A1 is responsible for the Kidd blood group system
• the molecular basis of the Jk(a)/Jk(b) blood group antigens is a single variation in position 280; Asp-280 corresponds to Jk(a) & Asn-280 to Jk(b)

More general terms

• blood group locus
• unclassified gene

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/111000
• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=6563