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Investigations on the ethnic variability of the ABO blood group polymorphism in Iran.
Zeitschrift fur Morphologie und Anthropologie - 1 Jan 1991
Walter H, Farhud D D, Danker-Hopfe H, Amirshahi P
Abstract excerpt
112 Iranian population samples with a total of 600954 individuals are analyzed concerning the ethnic variability of ABO allele frequencies. The genetic heterogeneity within and between these population samples is considerable. This heterogeneity is discussed with regard to the ethnohistory of Iran. The most striking ABO allele frequencies are observed in Assyrians, Armenians and Zoroastrians, which differ...
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