The distribution of ABO, MNSs, rhesus, kell, duffy and kidd blood groups of Jews originating from 20 countries
Levene, C.; Medalie, J.H.; Friedlander, Y.; Cohen, T.
Israel Journal of Medical Sciences 20(6): 509-518
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-2180 PMID: 6432728 Document Number: 559
The distribution of red blood cell antigens of 10,000 Jewish Israeli men are presented by their country of birth. The ABO, MNS, Rh, Kell, Duffy and Kidd blood groups were examined, and their frequencies were analyzed for each of 20 countries of birth. These results can serve as control and reference data for various studies, both basic and applied, concerning Jewish communities. The data are shown in various ways: phenotype and allele frequencies are presented alphabetically by countries of birth, and the allele frequencies are also shown by lowest to highest frequencies among the communities. Jews from Europe and Morocco apparently tend to have intermediate allele frequencies. At the extremes are mainly Jews from Yemen, Aden and Yugoslavia. These observations are in accordance with previous studies on genetic distances.
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