Table 4.

Frequency of RHCE alleles in random AA donor and SCD patient samples (n= 620)

Allele name RHCE*	From both sets of samples		Samples from SCD patients		Samples from NYBC blood donors of African descent
	Total # alleles	Allele frequency	# alleles	Allele frequency	# alleles	Allele frequency
ce (48G or 48C)	537	0.428	123	0.418	414	0.431
ce 733G (48G or 48C)	216	0.172	53	0.180	163	0.170
Ce	173	0.138	38	0.129	135	0.141
cE	129	0.103	27	0.092	102	0.106
ce 254G	56	0.045	9	0.031	47	0.049
(C)ceS	44	0.035	14	0.048	30	0.031
ceTI (Ce TI)	24	0.019	7	0.024	17	0.018
ceMO	20	0.016	5	0.017	15	0.016
ce 733G 941C (48C)	17	0.014	2	0.007	15	0.016
ce 105T (48C)	14	0.011	5	0.017	9	0.009
ceEK	7	0.006	3	0.010	4	0.004
ceAR	4	0.003	3	0.010	1	0.001
ceBI	3	0.002	0	0.000	3	0.003
Novel allele	3	0.002	2	0.007	1	0.001
CCWe	2	0.002	2	0.007	0	0.000
ceS(340)	2	0.002	0	0.000	2	0.002
ceCF	1	0.001	0	0.000	1	0.001
ceTI type 2	1	0.001	0	0.000	1	0.001
RN	1	0.001	1	0.003	0	0.000
#Alleles:	1254		294		960
#Samples: # Samples:	627 2 ND		147		480 2 ND

ND = not determined