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Editorial
. 2020 May;18(3):159-162.
doi: 10.2450/2020.0296-19. Epub 2020 Mar 17.

DEL

Willy Albert Flegel  1 , Franz Friedrich Wagner  2
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DEL

Willy Albert Flegel et al. Blood Transfus. 2020 May.
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Conflict of interest statement

The Authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Figure 1
Prevalence of DEL and Rh-negative in 3 major populations Greater than 83% are Rh-positive (green) in any large population, as shown for the EU (upper panels), US (middle panels), and China (lower panels). Among Rh-negative (blue), a small fraction represents DEL phenotypes (red, middle column of the pie charts). One distinct DEL variant, the Asian-type DEL (yellow), represents almost all DEL in China, but is also prevalent in the US. Numbers indicate inhabitants for the whole population, and Rh-negative and DEL individuals. Maps reproduced with permission by Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 from Wikipedia.
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