Predominance of the haemoglobin E gene in a mongoloid population in Assam (India)

✍ Scribed by Bhuban M. Das; Ranjan Deka; Gebhard Flatz

• Book ID: 104707751
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 284 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-6717
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00291953

✦ Synopsis

A high frequency of the haemoglobin E gene (HbbetaE) had been found in 1972 in the Ahom, a mongoloid population in Upper Assam. The present study confirms frequencies between 0.3 and 0.35 for this population in a larger sample from different areas. An even higher frequency near 0.5 was found in the Kachari of Upper Assam, a tribe of the tibetoburman Bodo group. HbbetaE frequencies in these groups are compared with the frequencies in the general Assamese population and the austroasiatic Khasi of Meghalaya.