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Developmental homeostasis and heterozygosity for blood group loci in a human population

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Relationship between the variability of 5 independent morphological characters and the heterozygosity level at 4 blood group loci were determined in Israel. An increase in the heterozygosity level led to a reduction of the range and coefficient of variation of the morphological traits and also led to an increase of modal phenotype frequencies in the group.

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  1. Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Israel

    G. Livshits & E. Kobyliansky

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  1. G. Livshits
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We are very grateful to Professor B. Arensburg of our department at the Tel Aviv University for his kind permission to use anthropometric data collected by him.

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Livshits, G., Kobyliansky, E. Developmental homeostasis and heterozygosity for blood group loci in a human population. Experientia 40, 748–749 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01949757

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