ABO-haptoglobin interaction in the white Australian population: further evidence from Tasmania.
A total of 2003 donors from the island state of Tasmania, Australia, were investigated for association between the genetic polymorphisms, ABO and haptoglobin, HP. No interaction between phenotypes of the two systems was found, although the observed deficit of HP*1 in group O has also been noted in the neighbouring Victorian population. When the Tasmanian and Victorian samples were merged to give a large Australian sample (N = 4,211) again no association was found among the phenotypes. However, significant differences were observed in the distributions of both HP phenotypes and alleles between group O and non-O persons respectively.
Mitchell
R J
RJ
Department of Genetics and Human Variation, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
D000017:ABO Blood-Group System / Q000235:genetics*; D006242:Haptoglobins / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D013648:Tasmania; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D044465:White People / Q000235:genetics
D000017:ABO Blood-Group System; D006242:Haptoglobins