THE Rh-Hr TYPES; A COMPLEX PROBLEM IN SEROLOGY, GENETICS, AND NOMENCLATURE
Authors: A. S. WIENER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1956)

Editorial1 October 1956THE Rh-Hr TYPES; A COMPLEX PROBLEM IN SEROLOGY, GENETICS, AND NOMENCLATUREA. S. WIENER, I. B. WEXLERA. S. WIENERSearch for more papers by this author, I. B. WEXLERSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-45-4-725 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe situation with which the student of blood grouping is confronted today is incomparably more complex than that which existed 25 years ago. Yet, even when only the four blood groups were known, the facts were not entirely clear, and a controversy raged among workers in the field regarding the mechanism of heredity and a suitable method of designating the blood groups.1The genetic controversy was settled when Bernstein's theory of inheritance of the blood groups by multiple allelic genes was adopted as scientifically correct. 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