Genetic Polymorphisms in the Kuwaiti Arabs

Sawhne, Kanwarjit Singh; Sunderland, E.; Woolley, Veronica

doi:10.1159/000153484

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“…This confirms our earlier ob servations of a very low Tf°1 in Jordan [Banerjee et al, 1981]. Sawhney et al [1984] reported a complete lack of T f°] in Kuwaiti Arabs. The frequencies of TjCl and TfC2 were found to be 0.721 and 0.275 among the Bedouins and 0.771 and 0.225 in non-Bedouins of Jordan.…”

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“…The low frequency of R0 in the present populations suggests a low degree of African admix ture. The frequencies of Rh alleles in the present populations of Jordan are similar to those in Saudi Arabs [Maranjian et al, 1966;Saha et al, 1980] and Kuwaiti Arabs [Sawhney et al, 1984],…”

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confidence: 80%

“…A somewhat lower frequency of Hp1 (0.29) was ob served in our earlier series of Jordanians [Banerjee et al, 1981]. The frequency of Hp1 has been reported to be relatively high in Saudi Bedouins (0.42) and in Egyptian Nubians (0.43), and similar to Jordanians in North Sinai Bedouins (0.27-0.34) [Saha et al, 1980;Goedde et al, 1979;Sawhney et al, 1984].…”

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confidence: 42%

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A Study of Some Blood Genetic Characteristics of Bedouin and Non-Bedouin Arabs of Jordan

Saha

Banerjee

1986

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Blood genetic markers were investigated in a sample of 111 Bedouin and 412 non-Bedouin male Arabs of Jordan. The frequencies of the ABO alleles were similar in these two groups, with a relatively high frequency of the·gene (0.63; 0.61). The frequencies of Rh genes were slightly different in these two groups, with a higher R_o, and a lower r in the Bedouins. A sub-sample of a smaller size was investigated for the distribution of haptoglobin types, Tf subtypes and red-cell G6PD (glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase) phenotypes. There was no significant difference in any of the systems between the two populations. No haemoglobin variant was detected. The study confirms the Arab characteristics of Jordanians with a small degree of African admixture.

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A Study of Some Blood Genetic Characteristics of Bedouin and Non-Bedouin Arabs of Jordan

Saha

Banerjee

1986

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“…A still lower frequency of Hp' was observed in Ethiopians (0.38: Harrison et al, 1969), North Sinai inhabitants (0.296-0.345: Hamza et al, 1976), Egyptian oases (0.3245: Selim et al, 1974), and Lybians (0.4211-0.4285: Kame1 et al, 1975). A lower frequency of Hp' has also been reported in Kuwaiti and Jordanian Arabs (0.2924: Banerjee et al, 1981;Saha and Banerjee, 1986;Sawhney et al, 1984). Thus the frequency of Hp' in the Sudanese tribes appears to be intermediate between that in Arabs and negroids.…”

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Some blood genetic markers of the Nuba and Hawazma tribes of Western Sudan

Bayoumi

Saha

1987

American J Phys Anthropol

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Two hundred eighty subjects comprising 112 Nuba and 168 Hawazma of the Sudan were tested for the distribution of hemoglobins, eight red cell enzymes, and four serum proteins. The Nuba, the indigenous negroid tribe, had no HbS, HbO-Arab, or GdB(Khartoum) compared to the Hawazma tribe of Negro-Arab descent. The gene frequencies of the above polymorphic systems in the latter were as follows: HbS, 0.13; HbO-Arab, 0.01; GdB(Khartoum), 0.03. The frequency of GdA was higher in the Hawazma than in the Nuba. A high frequency of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency and HpO was present in both the tribes. Essentially similar gene frequencies of Hp1, TfD, PGDC, pC, and PGM1 were observed in both Nuba and Hawazma. The average heterozygosity at five polymorphic loci was the same (0.23) in both the tribes. The above results agree with the social practice whereby people of mixed Hawazma and Nuba descent are considered members of the Hawazma tribe and confirm that racial admixture between the two groups can be seen as a process of gene flow from the Nuba to the Hawazma, even though the Nuba are the indigenous group, while the Hawazma are the new settlers.

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“…Of interest are the biological distinctions between the "mountain" groups and the "plain/desert" groups. Furthermore, within this latter These facts, which are supported by historical sources (Seligman, 1917;Van Beek, 1970;Richard, 1984) (Mourant, 1954;Maranjian et al, 1966;Mourant e Tills, 1967;Marengo Rowe et al, 1974;Tills et al, 1977;Saha et al, 1980;Sawhney et al, 1984). The results of these traditional genetical analyses have also recently been confirmed by studies on DNA markers.…”

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Microgeographic Differentiation in Historical Yemen Inferred by Morphometric Distances

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This study analysed the variations in space of 8 body dimensions and 11 measures of the head of 1,244 adult Yemenite males, collected in 1933/34 by Coon in Yemen and in Hadhramawt. The aim was to evaluate the presence of geographic microdifferentiation of the populations settled in the different regions of Yemen at the time. Coon sub-divided the sample into 6 geographical areas according to birthplace and ethnicity of the individuals: Tihamah, the Western Mountains, the Central Plateau, the South Coast, the Eastern Mountains and Hadhramawt. The results of ANCOVA (age as covariate) show that the observed differences of all variables among the six groups were highly statistically significant. Tukey's post-hoc test reveals higher statistically significant differences among four main groups: 1) Tihamah; 2) the Western Mountains and Central Plateau; 3)

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Genetic Polymorphisms in the Kuwaiti Arabs

Cited by 11 publications

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A Study of Some Blood Genetic Characteristics of Bedouin and Non-Bedouin Arabs of Jordan

A Study of Some Blood Genetic Characteristics of Bedouin and Non-Bedouin Arabs of Jordan

Some blood genetic markers of the Nuba and Hawazma tribes of Western Sudan

Microgeographic Differentiation in Historical Yemen Inferred by Morphometric Distances

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