Revisiting the Diego Blood Group System in Amerindians: Evidence for Gene-Culture Comigration.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Christophe Bégat, Pascal Bailly, Jacques Chiaroni, Stéphane Mazières
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Chaco; aleut; eskimo*; Eskimo–Aleut; Subarctic; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132211; https://doaj.org/article/bd2ac37e90b947158772dc3b09fb5a4c

Six decades ago the DI*A allele of the Diego blood group system was instrumental in proving Native American populations originated from Siberia. Since then, it has received scant attention. The present study was undertaken to reappraise distribution of the DI*A allele in 144 Native American populati...