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Modern Genetic Analysis Chapter 17. Population and Evolutionary Genetics Variation and its Modulation
Table 17-1. Frequencies of Genotypes for Alleles at MN Blood Group Locus in Various Human Populations

| GENOTYPE | ALLELE FREQUENCIES

Population | M / M | M / N | N / N | p(M) | q(N)

Eskimo | 0.835 | 0.156 | 0.009 | 0.913 | 0.087
Australian aborigine | 0.024 | 0.304 | 0.672 | 0.176 | 0.824
Egyptian | 0.278 | 0.489 | 0.233 | 0.523 | 0.477
German | 0.297 | 0.507 | 0.196 | 0.550 | 0.450
Chinese | 0.332 | 0.486 | 0.182 | 0.575 | 0.425
Nigerian | 0.301 | 0.495 | 0.204 | 0.548 | 0.452

SOURCE: W. C. Boyd, Genetics and the Races of Man. D. C. Heath, 1950.

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