Prevalence of Tuberculosis in Eskimos Having Blood Group B Gene

Document Type

Article

Authors

Theresa Overfield, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, Utah
Melville R. Klauber, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla, California

Abstract

Differential prevalence of clinical tuberculosis is demonstrated among Eskimos for the ABO, but not for MN blood-group system. In the ABO system, types AB and B individuals have more tuberculosis than the other two types and the prevalence rate of moderate and far-advanced disease is more than threefold greater for type B and AB than for types A and O. In the MN system, type MM individuals have more clinical tuberculosis than the other two genotypes, and they also show greater prevalence rates of moderate and far-advanced disease compared with the MM and NN genotypes, but the differences are not statistically significant.

Recommended Citation

Overfield, Theresa and Klauber, Melville R. (1980) "Prevalence of Tuberculosis in Eskimos Having Blood Group B Gene," Human Biology: Vol. 52: Iss. 1, Article 11.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol52/iss1/11