Is there a correlation between race/ethnicity and blood type?

Answer 1

Having followed transfusionnal medecine classes id definetly say YES. But it may not be easily describe with the most common blood type. In the ABO system, you could say that there is a higher % of B blood type in asian populations than in other population. In native americans (pure) , 95 % of the population is blood type O.

In the Rhesus system (Rh) you have about 3 determinating antigen D-C-E and their negative d-c-e. mixing them you get about this. DCe is common in 42% of caucasian population, but only 17% of black population. Dce is the total opposite. it is fairly rare in caucasian population (4%) and very common in black population (44%). if you are caucasian and have these matching Dce, you might have a black ancestor in you family.

If we look in other systems (Duffy, Kidd, Diego etc) we see great differencences depending on ethnicity.

Duffy system : less than 0.1% of caucasian population is Fy a-b-
68% of black population is Fya-b-
in fact, blood cells with any Duffy antigen are affected with a certain type of malaria (plasmodium vivax). therefore, by natural selection, those resistant to malaria spread in the population creating these changes.

Kidd system: having a phenotype Jk a-b- is extremely rare in all population except in polynesian population. these must be the effect of few mixes in the genes cause by an isolated population.

Diego system : Diego positive cells are found only in mongoloid population. it is oftenly used in antropology to detect if a native is of mongoloid origins. about 36 % of native american (north and south) are diego positive. in chinese population, 2-5%, japanese, 3-12%, black and caucasian population 0%.

so you see, blood type can tell about our origins, we get it from our parents, their parents and so on. Its a rather facinating story.

Answer 2

Blood Types By Race

Answer 3

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Is there a correlation between race/ethnicity and blood type?

Answer 4

The answer is yes, there may be a correlation between race/ethnicity and blood type. You will find all blood types in each human race/ethnic group; however, the population in certain countries/ethnicities show a higher percentage of certain blood types than others.

Answer 5

in certain geographic areas of the world, some blood types seem to be more common. if a specific race is more prevalent in an area with a more predominant blood type, yes, it can happen. but this isn't always the case. so the answer is: sometimes.

Answer 6

Race doesnt have any meaning, biologically speaking. The word that has meaning is clade. It has very little to do with skin-color or the human tendency toward discrimination and hate. It has a whole lot more to do with "more closed" groups of inheritance and shared allele frequencies.

Personally, I think the idea of race, that each ethnicity is in fact of a different species, is absolutely abhorent. Common ancestry is unambiguously demonstratable. There is one human race and all ethnicities are equally a part of it.

Answer 7

Check out these statistics of blood types.
http://www.bloodbook.com/world-abo.html

Answer 8

Yes I agree with what's been answered

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Well, they traced blood type O to Africa, yet my family as far back as my families knowlege, came from Germany & Holland...& I am white.
It is truly a melting pot!