Rh factor
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An additional circle on the card contains antibodies to the protein called Rh factor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2020
Four percent of African Americans have type O blood and a negative Rh factor, 5−10 percent of African Americans have the Rh– factor, and 51 percent have type O blood.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020
In 1937, Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener identified another essential feature of blood, the Rh factor, which explained blood incompatibilities between certain mothers and fetuses—a leading cause of stillbirths at the time.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
Looking at just the Rh factor, the team found that diabetes risk was the same whether or a not a woman was Rh positive or Rh negative.
From US News ● Dec. 18, 2014
It's a wise child that knows his own father, but henceforth the Rh* factor will make it easier to establish paternity.
From Time Magazine Archive
