029  GIL Blood Group
The GIL blood group system consists of one antigen carried on a multipass membrane glycoprotein aquaporin 3 (AQP3), an aquaglyceroporin. It consists of 292 amino acids and both amino and carboxyl termini are predicted to be intracellular.
Antigens
[1] GIL
Reference Info
Gene: AQP3
Allele: GIL*01. Acceptable: GIL, if inferred by haemagglutination
Seq: NG_007476.1 (genomic), NM_004925.4 (transcript)
Entrez GeneID: 360
Number of exons: 6