Re: Origins

Phil Nicholls (pn8886@thor.albany.edu)
7 May 1995 16:00:56 GMT

In article <677@landmark.iinet.net.au>,
Gil Hardwick <gil@landmark.iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>In article <3o9o38$3r1@stud.Direct.CA>, Iboothby (iboothby@Direct.CA) writes:
>>
>> I had actually heard that all native North and South American
>>popluations had either A type or O type blood and that was it.
>>I could be wrong, but that's what I've heard.
>>
>
>Oh, you'd heard that too, had you?
>
>If you seriously want to know whether you are wrong or not, maybe
>call in at your local library and do a search on the topic.
>
>Yes?
>
It is believed that blood groups A and B were absent from the
aboriginal populations of North and South America. In South America
and the southern part of North America the gene for A is found at
a frequency of 0.05 of less while the gene for B is 0.05 or less
throughout North and South America except for the coastal areas
of Australia. By contrast, the frequency of the O allele in South
America and the southern part of North America is between 0.95 and
1.0. There is an interesting pocket in Central West United States
in which the frequency of A reaches 0.05-0.15 and I believe it may
be attributed to a later movement from siberia.

Source: Mourant, A.E. (1954) Distribution of Human Blood Groups
Blackwell, Oxford.

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