TY  - JOUR
T1  - BLood groups in man.
AU  - Wiener AS
Y1  - 1969/06/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1969.00300160126036
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 736
EP  - 737
VL  - 123
IS  - 6
N2  - This is certainly the most often cited book on blood groups. Unfortunately, its popularity appears to have been based more on fluent and persuasive style of writing than scientific reliability. This new edition has been improved by elimination of some of the misinformation of former editions. Namely, the chapter on blood groups and disease, little d, and the so-called shorthand notations are gone. Unfortunately, the deleted material has been replaced with other misinformation.An outstanding example is the so-called LW factor (where the authors rediscover a fact pointed out by Landsteiner and Wiener more than 25 years ago). This is that guineapig and rabbit antirhesus sera and human anti-Rh sera are not identical in specificity even though they both detect the same agglutinogen Rh. (This is comparable to a profile and front view of a face, which are different but still show the same face.) Race and Sanger mistake this
SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1969.00300160126036
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1969.00300160126036
ER  -