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Two years ago1 Prof. R. A. Fisher and Dr. Janet Vaughan suggested that recent population movements in Great Britain can lead to significant association between surnames and blood groups. They found that out of 11,377 donors resident in the Slough area 591 bearing Welsh family names were-significantly lower than the remainder in the frequency of A. Counts of blood groups donors now in progress have yielded striking proof of the value of this simple technique ; and incidentally have revealed a startling and (to me) unexpected difference between North and South Wales.
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ROBERTS, J. Surnames and Blood Groups, with a Note on a Probable Remarkable Difference between North and South Wales. Nature 149, 138 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149138a0
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