Demographics of Rhesus Phenotype of Blood Donors in Calabar: A Case Study of University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria

Table 4

Comparison of rhesus phenotype of the studied population with published data from other studies in Nigeria.

Rhesus phenotype		Present study (%)	Jeremiah and Buseri, 2003 [16] (%)	Jeremiah and Odumody, 2005 [17] (%)
Fisher notation	Weiner shorthand
Rhesus positive
cDe/cDe	R0R0	46.2	60.8	73.6
cDe/CDe	R0R1	12.3	14.5	1.9
cDE/cde	R2r	20.6	—	—
CDe/CDe	R1R1	0.8	—	—
cDE/Cde	R2r^1	13.8	—	—
cDE/cDE	R2R2	2.3	—	4.4
cDE/CDE	R2Rz	2.3	—	—
CDE/CDE	RzRz	0.8	—	—
cDE/cDe	R2R0	—	17.5	13.9
CDe/cDE	R1R2	—	1.8	—
cDE/CdE	R2r^y	—	1.0	—
CDe/Cde	R1r^1	—	0.2	—
CDe/CdE	R1r^y	—	0.2	—
cDe/CDE	R0Rz	—		0.6
Rhesus negative
Cde/cde	r^1r	0.8	1.0	0.3
cde/cde	Rr	0.8	3.0	5.3