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PREVIOUS studies of ABO blood groups and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) distribution in Moslems, Zoroastrians and the Ghashghai tribal group in Iran showed absence of G-6-PD deficiency and a B gene frequency of 0.34 in Zoroastrians as compared with G-6-PD deficiency of 8 per cent and a B gene frequency of 0.28 in Moslems ; ABO blood group studies of the Ghashghai tribe were comparable with that of the Moslem group, and 11 per cent of males examined had G-6-PD deficiency1.
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BOWMAN, J. Haptoglobin and Transferrin Differences in some Iranian Populations. Nature 201, 88 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201088a0
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