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Levine9 in 1943 drew attention to the curious fact that mothers of children with haemolytic disease due to anti-Rh were more often compatibly mated on the ABO system than were unselected women. A compatible mating in this sense is one in which the husband could be a blood donor to his wife (as far as the ABO groups are concerned). There is no longer any doubt about the magnitude of this effect, as Table 77 shows.
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Clarke, C.A. (1950). Blood Groups in Man. In: Rhesus haemolytic disease. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6138-1_7
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