South‐Sinai Beduin. A preliminary report on their inherited blood factors

Abstract

Abstract Preliminary results of serological tests on 297 Beduin from several tribes in South‐Sinai include seven different blood‐group systems, three serum factors and eight red‐cell enzyme systems. The present tests show only slight differences between the various tribes, except for the tribe of Jebeliya, which differs very markedly not only from the other Sinai Beduin but from all other neighbouring populations. A considerable African component characterizes this “European” tribe as manifest by high frequencies of cDe (Rº), Fy , Js a , acid phosphatase P b and the presence of V (ce s ) and G6PD electrophoretic type A.