Family Studies on the Simian-Type Blood Groups of Chimpanzees

Abstract

Family studies were carried out to investigate the genetics of the chimpanzee simian type blood group systems V-A-B-D and C-E-F. In addition to providing new data, the studies confirm the validity of earlier results obtained by population genetics methodology for deducing genetic mechanisms in primate animals where family material cannot be obtained.

Human-type ABO blood groups as genetic markers for the management of a squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) breeding colony

“…The mode of inheritance of the human-type ABO blood groups in Old World monkeys has been studied exclusively by the method of population genetics because the number of samples available for family studies was insufficient, except in the case of chimpanzees (WIENER et al, 1972), baboons (MooR-JANKOWSK1 et al, 1964), and cynomolgus monkeys (TERAO et al, 1981). As regards New World monkeys, little has been reported about the inheritance or distribution of the ABO group.…”

Inheritance and Distribution of Human-Type A-B-O Blood Groups in Cynomolgus Monkeys

“…In cases in which there was no monkey of type O among tested samples, previous investigators tried to apply either the two‐ or the three‐allele model to the genetic analysis of A‐B‐O blood groups in baboons [2, 5, 16] and in vervet monkeys [4, 9]. However, family materials had been available only for chimpanzees and baboons [12, 21] to support the mode of inheritance of A‐B‐O blood groups investigated by population methods. Three successive generations of laboratory‐born cynomolgus monkeys were available to us, however, to carry out family studies for the estimation of individual genotypes as well as the mode of inheritance.…”

“…The gene analysis of A‐B‐O blood groups in wild populations of several nonhuman primate species has been conducted by methods of population genetics [3, 4, 16]. However, no family studies supporting the proposed genetic model of inheritance of the A‐B‐O groups have yet been published except for the pedigree investigations in chimpanzees [21] and baboons [12].…”

The First Isoimmune Blood Group System of Rhesus Monkeys <i>(Macaca mulatta):</i> the Graded Drh System

“…In the past, we have determined simian-type blood groups of chimpanzees on the basis of popu lation genetics' analysis, because in the 1960s no chimpanzee families were main tained in captivity. The conclusions arrived at by this method were fully confirmed later on when chimpanzee families became avail able for testing [25].…”