BGMUT Database of Allelic Variants of Genes Encoding Human Blood Group Antigens

Santosh Kumar Patnaik; Wolfgang Helmberg; Olga O Blumenfeld

doi:10.1159/000366108

BGMUT Database of Allelic Variants of Genes Encoding Human Blood Group Antigens

Transfus Med Hemother. 2014 Oct;41(5):346-51. doi: 10.1159/000366108. Epub 2014 Sep 15.

Authors

Santosh Kumar Patnaik¹, Wolfgang Helmberg², Olga O Blumenfeld³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY, USA.
² Department of Blood Group Serology and Transfusion Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
³ Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.

Abstract

The Blood group antigen Gene MUTation (BGMUT) database documents variations in genes of human blood group systems. In March 2014, the database, accessible at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gv/mhc/xslcgi.cgi?cmd=bgmut, listed 1,545 alleles of 44 genes of 34 blood group systems. Besides allelic information, the BGMUT resource also presents comprehensive and current information on blood group systems. This review describes the database and notes its utility for the transfusion medicine and human genetics communities.

Keywords: Allele; Antigen; Blood group; DNA variation; Database; Mutation.

Publication types

Review