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Observations of the persistence of donor lymphocytes following fetal transfusion and concern regarding the relationship of these cells to the post‐transfusion health status of the recipient has stimulated a study of the cytogenetic characteristics of human lymphocytes derived from prepared packs of red blood cells. Virtually all (98.4 %) donor packs studied possessed mitotically competent cells which were suitable for chromosome counting and karyotype analysis. The number of viable cells diminished as a function of storage time as did the mitotic index. The incidence of both chromosome‐type and chromatid‐type aberrations were observed to increase significantly with increasing storage time. A comparative study of glass and plastic blood storage systems showed no statistically significant age‐aberration type differences.
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Turner et al. (1971) studied this question.
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