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ABO Blood Groups and Sickle-cell Trait Investigations in Madhya Pradesh Indore District (Central India)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Narendra Kumar
Narendra Kumar*
Affiliation:
Anthropological Survey of India, Govt, of India, Indian Museum, Calcutta

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Blood samples from five hundred and ninety five individuals belonging to Indore district of west Madhya Pradesh were tested for ABO blood groups, and two hundred and ninety three of them were tested for the sickle-cell trait.

The investigated groups include: the Kadve Kulmi, the Khati, the Rami Mali, the Balai, the Bhil and a mixed sample of various castes. The aforesaid groups, within the district, are found to be homogeneous, as far as the ABO blood groups distributions are concerned. Frequencies for the O, A and B genes have been found to be 0.5251, 0.1587 and 0.3162, respectively, in the pooled data.

Sickle-cell trait has been detected in the Balai, the Charmakar or Chamar and the Bhil.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , September 1966 , pp. 404 - 408
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1966

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