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AN examination by paper electrophoresis has been carried out of hæmoglobin from 100 Tunebo Indians from the Santa Librada Mission located at San Luis de Chuscal (Department of Santander, Colombia). This tribe, whom historical and anthropological references consider to be a branch of the large Chibcha Indian group, consists of approximately 2,000 inhabitants spread over 22 small communities along the Rivers Suisiga, Cobaría and Cobugín, tributaries of the River Arauca, situated on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Cocuy, between lat. 6° 15′ and 7° 10′ N., and long. 71° 50′ and 72° 20′ W. All the individuals studied were adults, apparently normal. Both sexes were proportionally represented and the blood was drawn only from subjects not closely related.
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ARENDS, T. Absence of Abnormal Hæmoglobins in Colombian Tunebo Indians. Nature 190, 93–94 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/190093b0
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