Article
Moors and Christians: an example of multivariate analysis applied to human blood-groups.
Annals of human biology - 1 Jan 2000
Reyment R A
Abstract excerpt
Published data on the frequencies of the alleles of the ABO, MNS, and Rh systems for populations in the western Mediterranean region are analysed by the multivariate statistical methods of canonical variates, principal components, principal coordinates, correspondence analysis and discriminant functions. It is shown that there is a 'Moorish substrate' in the eastern and north-eastern parts of Spain and in...
Topics
- ABO Blood-Group System
- Alleles
- Blood Group Antigens
- Christianity
- Ethnicity
- History, 15th Century
- History, 16th Century
- History, 17th Century
- History, Medieval
- Humans
- Islam
- MNSs Blood-Group System