|
KMID : 0387720210320020091
|
|
Korean Journal of Blood Transfusion
2021 Volume.32 No. 2 p.91 ~ p.101
|
|
|
The Experience of RHD Genotyping in D-negative Blood Donors
|
|
Kim Tae-Eun
Park Yun-Ju
Shin Lee-Seul
Jung Yu-Soek
Youn Mi-Ae
Kim Yeong-Bin
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Background: There have been some domestic and overseas cases of anti-D alloimmunization caused by the transfusion of serologically D-negative blood. However, it is difficult to distinguish between true D-negative and DEL variants using conventional serologic typing. Therefore, we established the RHD genotyping algorithm for the detection of DEL variants and applied this algorithm to serologic D negative donors who voluntarily consented to testing.
Methods: From September 2016 to December 2020, 216 RhD negative donors who were C＋ and/or E+ in previous serologic typing were recruited. The screening test was PCR amplification of the RHD exons 4, 7, 10, and a promotor. Based on the results of PCR screening, true D-negative samples and RHD variants (including DEL) were discriminated. When the result was a RHD variant, exon 9 was sequenced to identify the nucleotide changes. Full sequencing was performed if no mutations were detected at exon 9.
Results: Among the 216 participants, 39 cases with the C?E?c＋e＋ phenotypes that did not meet the recruitment criteria were excluded from data analysis. Among the remaining 177 samples, 68 cases (38.4%) were RHD total deletions, 35 cases (19.8%) were RHD-CE-D hybrids, and 74 cases (41.8%) were RHD variants. Among the cases of RHD variants, 73 cases (98.6%) had c.1227G>A substitutions and were confirmed as Asian-type DEL.
Conclusion: Seventy-four cases of serologic D negative donors were reclassified as RHD variants by RHD genotyping. This is believed to have contributed to the improvement of transfusion safety by lowering the risk of anti-D alloimmunization in D-negative patients.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
RHD genotyping, DEL, D negative blood donors
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
  
|
|