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  • Even if the last man who had been with Ronda was a non-secretor, they could have tried to find out who he was.

    In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010

  • Even if the last man who had been with Ronda was a non-secretor, they could have tried to find out who he was.

    In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010

  • Even if the last man who had been with Ronda was a non-secretor, they could have tried to find out who he was.

    In the Still of the Night Ann Rule 2010

  • Because it was relatively insensitive, it would not detect the very low levels of marker chemicals left behind by a non-secretor.

    The Stocking Strangler case Rose, David 2007

  • The tests carried out on semen collected from the murder scenes of Ferne Jackson, Florence Scheible, and Martha Thurmond indicated that the stocking strangler was a “non-secretor,” whose body fluids contained only tiny traces of the group-O marker.

    The Stocking Strangler case Rose, David 2007

  • Perhaps, Wegel argued, the killer had not really been a non-secretor but what he called a “weak secretor,” because the tests had revealed tiny traces of the blood-group-O marker.

    The Stocking Strangler case Rose, David 2007

  • If so, he should have concluded that the strangler was a non-secretor — and so excluded Carlton Gary as the source of the semen.

    The Stocking Strangler case Rose, David 2007

  • Loss of function mutations in FUT2 (non-secretor) occur in 20\% of European-derived Caucasians.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • No significant differences for ABO blood group, secretor versus non-secretor status, or Lewis positive versus Lewis negative status were observed within groups.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • [15], [29] Conversely, we thought that O blood group, non-secretor and Lewis negative genotypes (genotypes that lack or produce nonfunctional fucosyltransferases) would have higher prevalence in patients with mild phenotypes, reflecting a reduced risk of infection.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

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