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Human genetics in Worcestershire and the Shakespeare country
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Human genetics in Worcestershire and the Shakespeare country

  • I Morgan Watkin1 

Heredity volume 22, pages 349–358 (1967)Cite this article

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Acknowledgements

I wish to thank Dr W. Weiner, Birmingham, the medical director of the National Blood Transfusion Service in the Midland Region, for offering me every facility to analyse the relevant blood-group record cards. Professor C. D. Darlington offered a number of valuable suggestions, as did Professors D. R. Dudley and R. H. Hilton of the University of Birmingham. I am grateful to all three, as I am to my wife who drew the map.

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Watkin, I. Human genetics in Worcestershire and the Shakespeare country. Heredity 22, 349–358 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.1967.46

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