Hereditary Blood Qualities

[摘要] Although the inheritance, according to certain perfectly definite mendelian principles, of group-specific substances in human blood has been known for ten years, the application of this information to medico-legal questions has not yet been made. It is the object of the present paper to present the possibilities of this practical application and to define the instances in which it can be used.In 1908 while working on the relation of the isoagglutination to blood transfusion, I noticed that the groupings were hereditary and followed Mendel's law and made a brief statement to that effect in an article on the technic of the transfusion tests, read with Epstein before the New York Pathological Society (1). At that time I had examined only five families and was uncertain as to a part of the mechanism of the inheritance. For this reason and because of extraneous interruptions to my work, I postponed further publication.

[学科分类] 生物科学（综合）