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THE rare haptoglobin phenotype, Johnson, discovered by Giblett1 in a Negress and her daughter, has since been described in Chinese, Jewish and Caucasian populations2. During the course of a population study of the blood groups and serum proteins of Australian Aboriginals of Central Australia3, two sera taken from members of the Pintubi tribe were found to have this phenotype. Afterwards, samples from the family of one of these were obtained. While there is some White admixture among Central Australian Aboriginals, the propositus himself is, so far as can be ascertained from his blood groups and general appearance, wholly Aboriginal.
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COOPER, D., LEWIS, H. & NICHOLLS, E. Haptoglobin Johnson in Australian Aborigines. Nature 208, 694 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/208694a0
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