ABO blood groups have been studied for associations with personality traits with no scientific consensus of positive findings. Because of previously known variations in population frequency distributions of ABO blood groups and newly discovered single nucleotide polymorphisms in ABO gene in the human genome project, associations of personality traits and health risks with ABO blood groups conti...

BACKGROUND ABO blood type is an established prognostic factor in several malignancies, but its role in esophageal cancer (EC) is largely unknown. The aim of this study is to determine whether ABO blood group is associated with survival after esophagectomy for EC. METHODS A total of 406 patients who underwent surgery for EC were enrolled. The associations of ABO blood group with clinical and p...

INTRODUCTION ABO rs495828 polymorphism has recently been associated with risk of hypertension and cough induced by angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, which could be due to low ACE plasma activity. To study whether ABO rs495828 is associated with ACE activity. The association between ABO genotype and phenotype, and differences in ACE activity between the ABO phenotype groups were al...

Hydrops fetalis associated with ABO incompatibility is an extremely rare condition. We report twin infants both afflicted with significant ABO hemolytic disease but showing different degrees of clinical severity, in which fatal hydrops developed in one of the twins. Hemolysis due to ABO incompatibility is usually difficult to diagnose. All causes of non-immune hydrops should be ruled out in ord...

Lossy trapdoor functions (LTDF) and all-but-one trapdoor functions (ABO-TDF) are fundamental cryptographic primitives. And given the recent advances in quantum computing, it would be much desirable to develop new and improved lattice-based LTDF and ABO-TDF. In this work, we provide more compact constructions of LTDF and ABO-TDF based on the learning with errors (LWE) problem. In addition, our L...

Among the conditions capable of causing hemolytic disease of newborn, blood group incompatibility is the most common cause of which most severe forms are encountered in Rh incompatibility. However with availability of effective antenatal care in detecting Rh negative mothers and successful administration of Rh immunoglobulin ABO incompatibility has emerged the most common cause of haemolytic di...

OBJECTIVES To identify venous thromboembolism (VTE) disease-susceptibility genes. PATIENTS AND METHODS We performed in silico genome wide association scan (GWAS) analyses using genotype data imputed to approximately 2.5 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from adults with objectively-diagnosed VTE (n=1503), and controls frequency matched on age and gender (n=1459; discovery populat...

In past and ongoing military conflicts, the use of whole blood (WB) as a resuscitative product to treat trauma-induced shock and coagulopathy has been widely accepted as an alternative when availability of a balanced component-based transfusion strategy is restricted or lacking. In previous military conflicts, ABO group O blood from donors with low titers of anti-A/B blood group antibodies was ...

The population-ecology approach (the natural-selection model) used to be a major orientation in consideration of organizational change and transformation. It is presented by its proponents as a theory distinct from structural contingency theory. This theory begins by rejecting the claim of contingency theory that organizations are adaptive. Contingency theory understands that the social and bus...