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Original Article

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1991;34(4):573-576. Published online April 30, 1991.

A case Rh negative brother and sister, both of whose parents were Rh positive.

Woo Ha You¹, Seung Wan Lee¹, Jong Lin Rhi¹, Hyun Joo Jeong¹, Yong Joon Shin¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, Daehan Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Received: September 21, 1990;  Accepted: November 20, 1990.

Abstract

The authors have experienced a case of Rh negative brother and sister, both of whose parents were Rh positive. On the testing by five major Rh antisers (anti D, anti C, anti E, anti c and anti e), the phonotypes of father and mother were CcDe, those of the brother were cde. Considering the possible genotypes, their genotypes was only one cde/cde in thirty-six combina- tions. The probability of that Rh negative (cde/cde) child could successively borne by those parents was 0.00077. so, this case was very rare and showed that Rh negative child could borne by Rh positive parents.

Keywords :Rh negative Brother and Sister