Blood Type Diversity Europe

[Northern_Sun]

You're the ignorant American who tries to guess the blood types of the Celtiberians, lol.

You're pretty ridiculous, a black African and a Chinese may have the same blood type, the Celts of Spain were different from each other, Celts were not one people, were a culture, the Celtiberians had the same types of blood that the current Spanish, A+ and O+ mostly and that's the only reliable source.

I’m sorry I’m above arguing with you.
I’m not American. I’m living there for now and will be going back to Europe soon.

[Ouistreham]

Blood group doesn't tell anything about an individual's phenotype, but the interesting point about it is that their statistical breakdown does tell a lot about ethnicities' past history.

If an originally homogeneous nation (provided it's large enough to impede bottleneck effects) repeatedly receives, generation after generation, some input from another race, the average phenotype will end up being substantially modified.

But strangely, it seems the original statistical distribution of blood groups keeps replicating itself at each generation. Sounds like a very conservative factor.

IMHO this inherent stability could be the reason why the Basque people, though being phenotypically and even genetically extremely close to their Castilian and Gascon neighbours, still show anomalous blood group stats.

Most astonishing, Eurasian invaders like the Finns and the Turks succeded to assimilate to their cultures peoples of Northern Europe and Anatolia. Now the Finns are virtually undistinguishable from the Germanics and Slavs surrounding them, and the modern Turks are just another Middle-Eastern nation. Despite their vaguely common origin in the Finno-Ugric and Uralo-Altaic Urheimats, they are racially as different as they can.

But their blood group distribution remains eerily similar:

[Scrapple]

Here is a scientific paper (fortunately not too long) on blood types and personality.

http://www.hy-ls.org/index.php/hyls/article/view/4/24

Dependence vs high Reward Dependence) in AB,
B, O, and A, in that order [1]. A similar order of
ABO blood groups has been described in the
spectrum of high Anger vs low Anger (except that in
Anger, O moves to the highest position in the list).
More recently, obsessive-compulsive disorder having
a genetic linkage with ABO blood group A has been
a hypothesis supported by some but not all
researchers [2,3].

[Pallantides]

A+

The A blood allele is somewhat more common around the world than B. About 21% of all people share the A allele. The highest frequencies of A are found in small, unrelated populations, especially the Blackfoot Indians of Montana (30-35%), the Australian Aborigines (many groups are 40-53%), and the Lapps, or Saami people, of Northern Scandinavia (50-90%). The A allele apparently was absent among Central and South American Indians.

[orangepulp]

Biologically the Rh negative mutation arose in Europe 25,000 to 35,000 years ago and spread from there. It does determine that this is a European mutation.

So what are you saying my maternal side is of European descent, that is unlikely we are Turkish. I did a DNA test btw and my mtDNA is H, if that tells anything.

[Nairi]

O+

[Heart of Oak]

I certainly found Northen-Sun more than interesting and informative as per normal she is very well informed and worth a read.

[Franke]

You have very extensive research regarding this human aspect.I too have found Rh positive common in Asia and diversity of blood groups in Europe proves that many new populations have settled in it.In my opinion its good in a sense that if someone needs a different blood group, it will be readily available.

[cilicia]

A+ (+/-)


I am not certain that the Rh- factor happened in Europe, but it certainly survived better there. The highest frequencies to my knowledge are in the Karaite Jews of Iraq and the Basques. Besides the places mentioned, it is also found in the Caucasus.

[Northern_Sun]

So what are you saying my maternal side is of European descent, that is unlikely we are Turkish. I did a DNA test btw and my mtDNA is H, if that tells anything.

I’m really sorry to disappoint you that you have some European genes(sad for us as well).
MtDNA Haplogroup H is a Eurasian Haplogroup found in 40-50% of Western Europeans.

European mtDNA haplogroups and their subclades
Haplogroup H & V (mtDNA)

Haplogroup H is by far the most common all over Europe, amounting to about 40% of the European population. It is also found (though in lower frequencies) in North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Northern Asia, as well as along the East coast of Africa as far as Madagascar.
H1, H3 and V are the most common subclades of HV in Western Europe.

H1 peaks in Norway (30% of the population) and Iberia (18 to 25%), and is also high among the Sardinians, Finns and Estonians (16%), as well as Western and Central European in general (10 to 12%) and North-West Africans (10 to 20%). H3 is commonest in Portugal (12%), Sardinia (11%), Galicia (10%), the Basque country (10%), Ireland (6%), Norway (6%), Hungary (6%) and southwestern France (5%). Haplogroup V reaches its highest frequency in northern Scandinavia (40% of the Sami), northern Spain, the Netherlands (8%), Sardinia, the Croatian islands and the Maghreb. It is likely that H1, H3 and V, along with haplogroup U5, were the main haplogroups of Western European hunter-gatherers living in the Franco-Cantabrian refuge during the last Ice Age, and repopulated much of Central and Northern Europe from 15,000 years ago.

Haplogroup H13 is most common in Sardinia and around the Caucasus. Its distribution is reminiscent of Y-DNA haplogroup G2a. The same is true of H2 to a lower extent. This would suggest a Caucasian or Anatolian origin.

H5 and H7 are also common in the Caucasus, but their lower incidence around the Mediterranean, and higher frequency from Anatolia to the Alps via the Danube suggest a possible link with the spread of agriculture (YDNA E1b1b, J2 and T) or of the Indo-Europeans (R1b1b2).