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ABO blood groups in squirrel monkeys (Saimiri boliviensis boliviensis)

Horacio Schneider; Maria Lúcia Harada

Departamento de Genética, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, 66059 Belém, Pará, Brasil

ABSTRACT

Blood and saliva samples were collected from 76 Saimiri boliviensis boliviensis from Bolivia. Saliva samples were tested for human ABH antigens by the conventional hemagglutination inhibition method. Fifty-nine samples were classified as A group and 17 as AB group. The phenotypic distribution fits well the expected one, assuming Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in a two-allele model with the following frequencies I^A - 0.89 e I^B - 0.11. These results are not significantly different from those found for S. b. peruviensis (Schneider et al., unpublished data). Natural agglutinins were investigated in 71 serum samples with a standard hemagglutination test and disagreement was observed in 34% of the comparisons between saliva and serum phenotypes.

Keywords: ABO blood; Saimiri boliviensis boliviensis.

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