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Blood Group A bantu Population and Family Studies
Author(s) -
Jenkins Trefor
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
vox sanguinis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.68
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1423-0410
pISSN - 0042-9007
DOI - 10.1111/j.1423-0410.1974.tb02730.x
Subject(s) - bantu languages , allele , population , phenotype , genetics , biology , ethnology , geography , demography , history , gene , sociology , philosophy , linguistics
. 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.