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Rh-Gene Frequencies in Pygmies (Batswa) of the Belgian Congo

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LAST summer we studied a sample of ninety-four bloods withdrawn from pygmies (Batswa) of the Equatorial Province, in the Belgian Congo. The gene frequencies for ABO and MN systems approximated to 1 (D/σ values well below 2) and we considered the sample to be normal.

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HUBINONT, P., SNOECK, J. Rh-Gene Frequencies in Pygmies (Batswa) of the Belgian Congo. Nature 164, 323 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164323c0

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