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Some blood genetic markers of selected tribes in Western Saudi Arabia
Author(s) -
Saha N.,
Bayoumi R. A.,
El Sheikh F. S.,
Samuel A. P. W.,
El Fadil I.,
El Houri I. S.,
Sebai Z. A.,
Sabaa H. M. A.
Publication year - 1980
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.1330520416
Subject(s) - indigenous , immigration , geography , population , traditional medicine , demography , ethnology , biology , medicine , history , sociology , ecology , archaeology
A total of 292 randomly selected subjects belonging to two indigenous Arab tribes (Harbi and Ghamid) and two immigrant tribes (Mograbi and Mowallad), residents in Western Saudi Arabia, have been tested for genetic variants of six blood groups, four serum proteins, and five red cell enzyme systems. The distribution of the polymorphic systems was different between indigenous and immigrant tribes, and the present Arab population shows a considerable degree of admixture from the surrounding countries, in particular Africa.