The Distribution of Haptoglobin and Transferrin Groups in South and South East Asia

The Main Haptoglobin Types in Greenland Eskimos

“…The lowest value of the H p1 gene frequency has been reported by K irk et al (1960) for Chinese, Malays and Indians in Malaya. Similar low values of Hp1 have also been found in Australian aborigines, although evidence is accumulating for considerable variation in frequency among different tribes (Kirk and Lai, 1961). In contrast to this as m any as about 50% of the sample among African Negroes were of the type 1-1 (Allison, Blumberg and Rees, 1958).…”

“…All the available surveys up to 1961 have recently been summarised by Sutton, Matson, Robinson andKoucky, 1960, andK irk andLai, 1961. In a small sample of 74 Greenlanders, Galatius-Jensen (1960), found a low incidence of the H p1 gene.…”

Distributions of Blood and Serum Groups in a Swedish Gypsy Population

“…The only transferrin variant found in our series was TfC. One would have expected to find some individuals with the slow transferrin variant Dj which is relatively frequent in India (Kirk and Lai, 1961).…”

Transferrins in Greenland Eskimos

“…The faster moving variants (B) have not been observed in negroes (with the-ex ception of one case) (Giblelt, Hickman and Smithies, 1939), but all three have been found in European samples. The transferrin bands (D) which migrate less rapidly than transferrin C have not been re ported in whites, except in Swedish Lapps (Beckman and Holmgren, 1961) hut in nearly 50 per cent of some groups of Australian abori gines (Kirk and Lai, 1961). The results, however, m ust be looked upon with some reservation as the results in m any cases are based on a very limited m aterial.…”

“…All the available surveys up to 1961 have recently been summarized by Sutton, Matson, Robinson andKoucky (1960) andK irk andLai (1961). The present investigation concerns the transferrin groups in Green landers, which has not previously been published.…”