OMIA:001089-9590 : Blood group system ABO in Symphalangus syndactylus (siamang)

In other species: crab-eating macaque , Japanese macaque , Rhesus monkey , olive baboon , agile gibbon , common gibbon , chimpanzee , pig

Categories: Haematopoietic system phene

Possibly relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s) (MIM number): 110300 (gene)

Links to MONDO diseases: No links.

Mendelian trait/disorder: yes

Mode of inheritance: Autosomal co-dominant

Considered a defect: no

Key variant known: yes

Year key variant first reported: 2009

Cross-species summary: Each blood group system consists of a set of blood types, each of which corresponds to a particular antigen (usually a glycoprotein) on the surface of red blood cells. The different types within a system are the result of the action of different alleles at a locus that usually encodes an enzyme that catalyses the creation of the feature of the glycoprotein unique to that type, e.g. the presence of a particular sugar at the end of a short chain of sugars. The ABO blood group system arises from two alleles at a locus that encodes a glycosyltransferase: the A allele encodes alpha 1-3-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase; and the B allele encodes alpha 1-3-galactosyltransferase. The B allele transferase catalyses the addition of galactose to a chain of four sugars attached to a protein known as H antigen. The A allele ltransferase catalyses the addition of a derivative of galactose called N-acetylgalactosamine to the same short chain of sugars. The third allele at this locus (the O allele) results in no sugar being added to the chain.

Genetic engineering: Unknown
Have human generated variants been created, e.g. through genetic engineering and gene editing

Associated gene:

Symbol Description Species Chr Location OMIA gene details page Other Links
ABO Symphalangus syndactylus 3 NC_072425.2 (11439421..11461060) ABO Homologene, Ensembl , NCBI gene

Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2012). OMIA:001089-9590: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70

Reference

2009 Kitano, T., Noda, R., Takenaka, O., Saitou, N. :
Relic of ancient recombinations in gibbon ABO blood group genes deciphered through phylogenetic network analysis. Mol Phylogenet Evol 51:465-71, 2009. Pubmed reference: 19298858. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.02.023.

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