Eight hundred and sixty-five patients with diabetes mellitus showed ABO blood group frequencies closely similar to those expected from the controls. Six hundred and sixteen patients with diabetes mellitus showed frequencies of secretion and non-secretion of the ABH(O) substances in the saliva closely similar to those expected from the controls. Four hundred and fifty-three patients with diabete...

The finding that purified blood group A and B substances specifically precipitate the corresponding isoantibodies from the serum of normal and immunized individuals and that the amounts of these antibodies could be estimated by the microquantitative precipitin method (1) introduced by Heidelberger and MacPherson (2) has made it possible to apply the technics of quantitative immunochemistry to t...

AMost geneticists beliezve that genetic factors are inzolv!ed in susceptibility and resistance to many "non-Mendelizing" human diseases. It seems, therefore, reasonable to look for disease associations among genetic polymorphisms, and a great deal of work has already been done with blood groups in this field. Dr. Vogel summarizes his extensive experience with this approach in thefirst annotatio...

An analysis was made of the distribution of various blood groups in subjects with affective disorders. A group of healthy subjects served as controls. The distribution showed lack of association of affective disorder and any blood groups.