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Blood Group A<sub>bantu</sub> Population and Family Studies

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healthcare

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dataset
Creator:
Tre
Publisher:
WILEY
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Abstract. The presence of the A bantu phenotype in 38 Southern African populations has been established. It reached its highest frequencies in San and Khoikhoi peoples and it is postulated that A bantu is primarily a Khoisan character which has only secondarily (and relatively recently) been acquired by the Negro as he migrated southwards. This would explain its virtual absence in West African Negroes and their descendants in the New World. Family studies have established that the A bantu phenotype is determined by an allele designated A bantu and that the A bantu phenotype is dominant to O, recessive to A 1 and A 2 and co‐dominant with B.

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