Spontaneously arising red cells with a McLeod-like phenotype in normal donors

David J. Araten; Katie J. Sanders; Jeffrey Pu; Soohee Lee

doi:10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2009.03.009

Spontaneously arising red cells with a McLeod-like phenotype in normal donors

David J. Araten, Katie J. Sanders, Jeffrey Pu, Soohee Lee

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Abstract

Very few human genes can be used to identify spontaneous inactivating somatic mutations. We hypothesized that because the XK gene is X-linked, it would be easy to identify spontaneously arising red cells with a phenotype resembling the McLeod syndrome, which results from inherited XK mutations. Here, by flow cytometry, we detect such phenotypic variants at a median frequency of 9 × 10^-6 in neonatal cord blood samples and 39 × 10^-6 in healthy adults (p = 0.004). It may be possible to further investigate the relationship between aging, mutations, and cancer using this approach.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-5
Number of pages	5
Journal	Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis
Volume	671
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2009.03.009
State	Published - Dec 1 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Flow cytometry
Kell proteins
Mutant frequency
Spontaneous mutation
XK gene

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Molecular Biology
Genetics
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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