Distribution of Blood Groups Among Brahmins and Rajputs of Himachal Pradesh

Abstract

Table1 shows that the frequency of blood group B is highest (40%) among the Brahmins followed by the frequency of blood group O (24.17%), A1(22.5%),. A1B(11.67%), A2(0.83%), and A2B(0.83%). Among the Brahmins frequency of allele O (0.4906) is found to be highest as compared to allele B (0.3106), A1(0.1885), A2 (0.0103). The frequency of D is found to be 92.5% with an allele frequency of D as 0.7261. Similarly the frequency of blood group B is highest (37.39%) among the Rajputs of Kasauli followed by the frequency of blood group A1(26.17%), O(17.76%), A1B(16.82%), A2(0.93%), and A2B(0.93%) (see Table 1). The frequency of allele O among the Rajputs (0.4151) of Kasauli is found to be highest as compared to allele B (0.3288), A1(0.2438), A2(0.0123). The frequency of D is found to be 95.3% with an allele frequency of D as 0.7838. The intergroup differences between the two groups under study for A 1 A 2 BO (χ 2 =2.6016) and Rh(D) (χ 2 =0.7944) are not found to be