The Blood Group Antigen FactsBook

The Blood Group Antigen FactsBook — winner of a 2013 Highly Commended BMA Medical Book Award for Internal Medicine — has been an essential resource in the hematology, transfusion and immunogenetics fields since its first publication in the late 1990s.The third edition of The Blood Group Antigen FactsBook has been completely revised, updated and expanded to cover all 33 blood group systems. It blends scientific background and clinical applications and provides busy researchers and clinicians with at-a-glance information on over 330 blood group antigens, including history and information on terminology, expression, chromosomal assignment, carrier molecular description, functions, molecular bases of antigens and phenotypes, effect of enzymes/chemicals, clinical significance, disease associations and key references.- Highly Commended 2013 BMA Medical Book Award for Internal Medicine- Includes more than 330 entries on blood group antigens in individual factsheets- Offers a logical and concise catalogue structure for each antigen in an improved interior design for quick reference- Written by three international experts from the field of immunohematology and transfusion medicine

About the Author

Marion E. Reid, Ph.D., FIMBS, DSc (Hon.) is Head of the Laboratory of Immunochemistry and formerly the Director of the Laboratory of Immunohematology at New York Blood Center. Dr Retrained, as a medical technologist (Fellow Institute of the Institute of Biomedical Science in Hematology, Blood Transfusion, and Blood Group Serology) at the North East Metropolitan Blood Transfusion Service. Brentwood. She has a Master of Science decree in Clinical Science and a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry. Christine Lomas-Francis, MSc, FIBMS, is the Technical Director of the Laboratory of Immunohematology and Genomics at the New York Blood Center. Christine received her training at the Blood Group Unit of the Medical Research Council in London, England and originally relocated to the USA to join the Consultation and Education department at Gamma Biologicals, Inc. Martin I. Olsson, M.D., Ph D., is a Professor in Transfusion Medicine at Lund University and the Medical Director of the Nordic Reference Laboratory for Genomic Blood Group Typing (Lund, Sweden). Dr. Olsson received his M.D. and Ph.D. at Lund University and has been a Visiting Scientist at the IBGRI in Bristol, U.K. in 1996 and a Visiting Associate Professor/Lecturer at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA from 2003 to 2008.