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Science 8 April 1966:
Vol. 152. no. 3719, pp. 219 - 220
DOI: 10.1126/science.152.3719.219
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Seroprimatology of Chimpanzees: Blood-Group Distribution as a "Racial" Characteristic

J. Moor-Jankowski 1, Alexander S. Wiener 2, Clyde H. Kratochvil 3, and Jerry Fineg 3

1 Department of Forensic Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York 10016
2 Serological Laboratory, Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York City, and Department of Forensic Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York 10016
3 6571st Aeromnedical Research Laboratory, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico 88330

Significant differences in the distribution of human-type and simian-type blood groups have been demonstrated in chimpanzees classified into subspecies or "races" on the basis of morphological traits. The differences in chimpanzees are analogous to racial differences in the distribution of blood groups in man.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Hemoglobin Polymorphism in Chimpanzees and Gibbons.
H. A. Hoffman, A. J. Gottlieb, and W. G. Wisecup (1967)
Science 156, 944
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Transferrin Polymorphism and Population Differences in the Genetic Variability of Chimpanzees.
M. Goodman, W. G. Wisecup, H. H. Reynolds, and C. H. Kratochvil (1967)
Science 156, 98-100
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