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EATON et al.1 described a new blood group antibody, anti-Yta, which reacted with a very high proportion of blood samples (99.6 per cent) by the anti-human globulin technique. The antibody was shown to distinguish between homozygous YtaYtb samples and heterozygous YtaYta samples by giving a dosage effect, and so it was possible to estimate the gene frequencies of both Yta (93.8 per cent) and the postulated Ytb (6.2 per cent).
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GILES, C., METAXAS, M. Identification of the Predicted Blood Group Antibody Anti-Ytb. Nature 202, 1122–1123 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2021122a0
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