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ABH antigen secretion in Basques and the spatial variation pattern of the secretor locus in Spain
R Calderon1, C Vidales, E Rebato
1Department of Animal Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Sciences, Basque Country University, Bilbao, Spain.
Gene Geography : a Computerized Bulletin on Human Gene Frequencies
|April 1, 1991
Abstract:
Secretion of the ABH blood group antigen was analyzed in 305 saliva samples of students in the Basque Country University. The frequency of ABH non-secretor was 26.23%, a result very close to that obtained in autoctonous Basques (22-23%) and in other populations from the West (Galicia) and Centre (Castille) of Spain. With certain exceptions, the frequencies of non-secretor se allele present a fairly homogeneous variability pattern and no significant spatial orientation or tendencies of se gene distribution are observed in the Iberian Peninsula.