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Is there a positive assortative mating for the P blood group?
Human Heredity
|January 1, 1983
Abstract:
A sample of 350 families from paternity cases, analyzed for the P blood group system, was studied in order to confirm a previously found tendency to positive assortative mating. No significant deviations from random mating were found. However, when combined with materials from previously published reports, a significant deviation in favour of matings between likes was obtained.
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