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A note on the presence of blood groups A and B in pre‐Columbian South America
Author(s) -
Llop Elena,
Rothhammer Francisco
Publication year - 1988
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.1330750112
Subject(s) - abo blood group system , biology , demography , geography , evolutionary biology , genealogy , ethnology , genetics , history , sociology
The results of ABO typing in Chilean mummies, a review of published South American paleoserological studies and a systematic discrepancy of admixture estimates based on ABO and Gm genes support the hypothesis that Andean pre‐Columbian populations possessed the A (and perhaps the B) gene in small frequencies.