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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 10(4), 1961, pp. 665-668
Copyright © 1961 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Studies on Kuru

VI. Blood Groups in Kuru

Roy T. Simmons, John J. Graydon, Vincent Zigas, Lois Larkin Baker AND D. Carleton Gajdusek
The Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Melbourne, Australia, Public Health Department, Territory of Papua and New Guinea, and National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

The ABO, MNSs and Rh blood group gene frequencies are presented for 167 kuru victims and 25 kuru-recovered subjects, and comparisons made with other populations in the kuru region and with kuru-free Eastern Highland populations. Comparative results in other blood group systems are also summarized.

Some differences were found between kuru-afflicted and kuru-free groups, but these are not considered sufficient to be regarded as evidence of an association between the kuru-predisposing gene and any of the blood factors.






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