I'm looking for info about ABO blood types distribution in China, especially amongst the 56 or so Chinese ethinicities, or distribution throughout the different provinces/regions/cities. Is there a north-south or west-east difference between the ABO distribution in China, for instance? I can't read Chinese and there doesn't seem to be much information about this in the English sources that I've looked at. If anyone has any information regarding this at all, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

rudeboy or Grand Genealogist are the person to ask..they specializes on blood DNA of ethnicities.

I think B should be a bit more dominant in all of China. But, there are lots of O in southern China too.

Yes. I found a bit of information on this from BloodBook.com (http://www.bloodbook.com/world-abo.html).

Chinese-Canton:
O = 46
A = 23
B = 25
AB = 6

Chinese-Peking:
O = 29
A = 27
B = 32
AB = 13

But the rest of China is still a mystery.

http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/vary_3.htm
Is O so high everywhere, that lowest in the chart is 50%-60%?

Sorry, GZY, for the late reply. Haven't checked my PM.

I don't have anything on blood types. It isn't really used independently as any type of population affiliation indicator, since it is only one loci (subject to high selection and drift) out of hundreds of traits used now in any single contemporary genetic study. And of course, lineage studies are another type of study favored.

Rudeboy...

Mr. Pseudo Science here... there is an urban legend??? that I have heard, of blood typing among primates, pre-humanoid species...

Or it may be scientifically proven... I certainly have no way of knowing...

That human blood types of O, A, and B show the following parallels...

Chimpanzees... Blood Type A, can never be "B" or "O"

Gorillas... Type B, sometimes A, never O

Baboons... Can be A, B, or O...

How much truth to this? Does it indicate anything at all, or is it pure nonsense?

Mr. Pseudo Science Ed Ziomek..
I doubt A B and O in the chimpanzee, gorilla, and baboon refer to the same thing as in humans.. Perhaps just a naming convention...

Some believe that the ABO blood type dominate one's personality. Is it really?

There always some companies asked people to tell their own bloodtype,rather annoying.But now people got more clever, whenever it is, write down the O is the best choice.

Grasy... You are most-probably right!

Believe me when I tell you... I am in noooooo position to doubt anything that anyone says... I am completely non-academic in this area, and don't have a clue of what I read sometimes, but there IS written material out there, probably referring to the 13 million-years-ago time frame... discussing these issues...

Examples...

http://experts.about.com/q/995/3090499.htm

Question from a Korean named "Yangkun"....
"So, could you possibly ask my question about blood type for monkey? Does this animal have different types of blood as we humman beings have? My understanding is that they have two types, Rh+ and Rh-. Any others? "

Answer
"Yangkun,
Actually all blood types found in humans appear in some sort of species of monkey. Which type and which percentage depend on species. The Rh factor is a protein that was first discovered in the Rhesus monkey. 85% of humans have this protein and are Rh+.

Some different animals have different blood types (Dogs have four, cats have 11 and cows have 800) but monkeys have blood types very similar to humans. The chimpanzee has mostly type A blood; sometimes O but never B. Gorillas have ONLY type B blood. Baboons, like humans have A, B and O blood types. It is true that all apes and all humans can be divided into the two blood types Rh+ and Rh- but Rh typing and A,B,O typing are two different ways to type blood. This is true in both humans and primates."
-Steve Whitehead

http://www.owendot.com/Health_Science/ABO_Blood_Cells.html

"ABH antigens are not only found in humans, but also in various organisms such as bacteria, plants, and animals. ABH substances are present both on red blood cells and in secretions only in humans and some of the apes (chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, and gibbon). In all other mammalian species these substances are found only in secretions."

http://facstaff.uwa.edu/jmccall/evolution_of_the_human.htm

"Of the Old World monkeys, the chimpanzee has been the most studied (Socha et al., 1984). Interestingly, they have predominantly blood type A and in rare cases blood type O, but NEVER blood type B (Socha et al., 1984). Most blood systems found in chimpanzees also exist in man, but there are some species specific characteristics. The chimpanzee is thought to be the ancestor of Cro-magnon man.

In contrast to chimpanzees, gorillas have been found to possess ONLY blood type B. Some evolutionary scientists believe the gorilla to be the ancestor of Neanderthal man.

Grasy... this is a great intellectual discussion... possibly my contributions are slightly off-topic, but certainly "food for thought" about our evolution, and cultural migrations... (my opinion)

And my wife will be the first to tell you... I still swing from the trees, I never evolved.

Just forgot something..
The blood types could be true.
Most, if not all, blood types are based in antigenes e.g. Rhesus blood type are based on antigenes found in the blood of rhesus monkey.

Perhaps the A and B antigenes also exist in other primates' blood? (O:no A or B antigenes, AB: have both)
But saying the humans developed from different species feel strange. There is no some specific blood type in some species can come in some possibility.
Human have ABO. But saying human are mix of Chimpanzees and Gorillas? I think once the species have split, there's no way they can converge again.


Should not be..
If they later find that actually the people are not that blood type.. what will happen?

It's true that the O allele is by far the most numerous within the world population, and type O is the most common blood type. But since a person needs to inherit *two* O alleles (OO) in order to have type O blood, this blood type is not *quite* as common as it appears. Some people have an O allele but have blood type A or B because they have the alleles combination of OA or OB.




Why is O the best choice?

I remember reading somewhere that during WWII, an American geneoligist (for propaganda against the Japanese) came up with some theory that whites were mostly a certain bloodtype, while Asians were another, and that asians were inferior for it (something like the 'Asian' bloodtype being more common in animals)

I want to say the 'Asian type' was B, but I can't remember.

You say animal, it could be Rhesus, there are a distinction of Rh+ and Rh-.

Europeans have lots of Rh-, if I recall correctly about 85%. Africans are about 100%. Asian is... I forgot. But definitely more than 50% Rh+.

could you mention some scientists who actually think that about cro magnon and neanderthal man? I have certainly never heard of it. Humans did not evolve from any of the other modern great apes, but share a common ancestor with them, most recently with the chimpanzee lineage. The disappearance of the B blood type in chimps, assuming that source there is correct, would have occured after the breaking of the human lineage from the chimp lineage, and similarly the loss of the A type in gorillas would have occured after their split from the human/chimp line. The claim that homo evolved twice, which is essentially what that is claiming there (once from the pan group and once from the gorilla group) is nonsensical.

Jet Black... I am just tabling ideas. I may be the least qualified of any of the posters, I am certainly non-scientific, non-academic, only a reader of many articles and books and theories and discussions and blogs... and most dangerous of all, I sometimes BELIEVE what others write.

You sound like a definitive sort, so I will go with your opinion or Grazy or Rudeboy's ... or anyone else's... I think it is a very, very interesting discussion, that is all.

Having said all that, I will be posting some touristy observations of my own, soon on an independent thread, that at least indicates "connectivity-similarity of theologies" over the last 5,000 to 10,000 years, that is where my focus comes into play.

For example: Tehotu/Thoth among the Egyptians, Tao-te/Taoism among the Chinese, and Teo-ti among the pre-Aztecs tribes of Mexico, these "theologies" (for lack of a better term) show remarkably similar characteristics, again from my non-scientific observations.

The primate references I believe look back 13 million years, and try to make theoriesa, and it may in fact be nonsense, I cannot tell.

Thank you for posting, I am learning much.