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A FEW months ago1 we appealed to centres of the emergency blood transfusion service, and in particular to those which we were supplying with testing serum, to allow us to assemble the extensive data on blood group frequencies in Great Britain, then for the first time becoming available. We were confident that such a collection would throw light on the precision with which such extensive groupings can be relied on to determine the gene-ratios in our population, and we hoped further that this precision might be sufficient to detect with certainty any such small variations of ethnographic significance as might exist within our island.
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FISHER, R., TAYLOR, G. Scandinavian Influence in Scottish Ethnology. Nature 145, 590 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145590a0
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