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Body weight and ABO blood types: Are AB females heavier?
Author(s) -
Kelso AJ,
Maggi Wynne,
Beals Kenneth L.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
american journal of human biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.559
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1520-6300
pISSN - 1042-0533
DOI - 10.1002/ajhb.1310060313
Subject(s) - abo blood group system , demography , blood type (non human) , body weight , body type , biology , hum , phenotype , immunology , genetics , endocrinology , sociology , history , anatomy , gene , performance art , art history
Four samples from widely separated and culturally distinct populations—U.S. college students, Mennonites, Egyptian villagers, and Brazilian migrants—are examined for evidence of a relationship between ABO blood type and body weight. Overall, the results do not support the existence of such a relationship, although they do offer further support to the possibility that females of AB blood type are consistently the heaviest phenotype. © 1994 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.