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SAMPLES of blood from 219 unrelated Negroes, mostly from New York or Jamaica, have been tested for the X-linked blood group antigen Xga. The antigen is significantly less frequent in those Negroes than it is in Caucasians as the following comparison shows: 
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Sanger, R., Race, R. R., Tippett, P., Hamper, J., Gavin, J., and Cleghorn, T. E., Vox Sang., 7, 571 (1962).
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GAVIN, J., SANGER, R., TIPPETT, P. et al. The Xg Blood Groups of Negroes. Nature 200, 82–83 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200082a0
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