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ABO‐typing of ancient skeletons from Israel
Author(s) -
Micle S.,
Kobilyansky E.,
Nathan M.,
Arensburg B.,
Nathan H.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
american journal of physical anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1096-8644
pISSN - 0002-9483
DOI - 10.1002/ajpa.1330470115
Subject(s) - abo blood group system , population , judaism , blood typing , biology , archaeology , geography , demography , genetics , immunology , sociology
Sixty‐eight ancient skeletons, unearthed at Jerusalem and En Gedi and, according to the archeological data belonging to Jewish residents of these places from about 1,600 to 2,000 years ago, were ABO‐typed by means of the hemagglutination‐inhibition test. The blood groups of 13 skeletons were undiagnosable and the remaining 55 showed the following distribution: 30.91% A‐group, 14.54% B‐group, 50.91% AB‐group and 3.64% O‐group. According to these findings, the population to which these skeletons belonged must have had a high frequency of genes I A and I B , and a low occurrence of O blood group and its related I O gene.