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Blood Group Maps of Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

J. P. Garlick
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In very few regions of Africa are the blood group distributions known in detail—even for the ABO system—and the maps must therefore be treated with reserve. Small-scale maps are useful for showing general trends, such as the rise in O frequency from the Middle East to Central Africa, but they cannot do justice to the considerable local fluctuation which detailed surveys have revealed (especially in Liberia and in the Eastern Congo).

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Research Article
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The Journal of African History , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , July 1962 , pp. 297 - 300
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1962

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