Duffy blood group locus

Introduction

1q21-q22

Pathology

• the Duffy antigen is the receptor for Plasmodium vivax
  • Duffy-negative individuals are resistant to malaria due to Plasmodium vivax
• Duffy-negative individuals have a benign ethnic neutropenia

More general terms

• blood group locus
• unclassified gene

Additional terms

• chronic idiopathic neutropenia; benign ethnic neutropenia; Duffy-null associated neutrophil count

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/110700
• Entrez gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Graphics&list_uids=2532