Rh factor
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The combination of A and B antigens and the Rh factor produces the eight major blood types: A-positive, A-negative, B-positive, B-negative, AB-positive, AB-negative, O-positive and O-negative.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 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
The allele for Rh factor comes in two forms: Rh+ and Rh−.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
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
In these 200,000 or more marriages a year, the wife lacks the Rh factor present in most blood and is Rh-negative; the husband has the factor and is Rh-positive.
From Time Magazine Archive
