BLOOD GROUP

classification of blood based on inherited differences (polymorphisms) in antigens on the surfaces of the red cells. Inherited differences of white cells, platelets, and plasma proteins also constitute blood groups, but they are not included in this discussion. Additional reading Analytical books and texts providing coverage of blood groups include Kathleen E. Boorman, Barbara E. Dodd, and P.J. Lincoln, Blood Group Serology: Theory, Techniques, Practical Applications, 5th ed. (1977); P.L. Mollison, Blood Transfusion in Clinical Medicine, 7th ed. (1983); A.E. Mourant, Blood Relations: Blood Groups and Anthropology (1983); R.R. Race and Ruth Sanger, Blood Groups in Man, 6th ed. (1975); Margaret E. Wallace and Frances L. Gibbs (eds.), Blood Group Systems, ABH and Lewis (1986); Technical Manual of the American Association of Blood Banks, 9th ed. (1985); Peter D. Issitt, Applied Blood Group Serology, 3rd ed. (1985); Charles Salmon, Jean Pierre Cartron, and Philippe Rouger, The Human Blood Groups (1984); and Lawrence D. Petz and Scott N. Swisher, Clinical Practice of Blood Transfusion (1981). Sylvia Dorothy Lawler Eugene M. Berkman