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Intertroop variation in the frequencies of ABO alleles in a population of olive baboons

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Blood and saliva were obtained from 183 olive baboons captured on the Kekopey Ranch in the Central Rift Valley of Kenya. Samples were returned to the Laboratory of Biological Anthropology and tested for ABO antigens. A uniquely high frequency of the amorph is reported. Intertroop variation at this locus appears to be very high, although within the ranges reported by some previous investigators.

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  1. Laboratory of Biological Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of California,Los Angeles, 90024, Los Angeles, California

    R. H. Byles & Mark F. Sanders

  2. Institute of Primate Research, P.O Box 114, Limuru, Kenya

    R. H. Byles

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Byles, R.H., Sanders, M.F. Intertroop variation in the frequencies of ABO alleles in a population of olive baboons. Int J Primatol 2, 35–46 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02692298

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