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5 - Blood Lines of the British People

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2022

By
Walter Bodmer
Edited by
Iosifina Foskolou  and
Martin Jones
Iosifina Foskolou
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Martin Jones
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

The chapter opens with a concise history of the recognition of blood types that, as well as informing the human immune system, incidentally provide an ideal genetic data set for phylogenetic enquiry. The chapter goes on to relate that enquiry to the author’s People of the British Isles project. This project draws upon genetic data from just over 2,000 volunteers to construct a genetic map of the human population of the British Isles. From that genetic map, the peopling of the British Isles is inferred and reconstructed.

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blood groupsBritainarchaeologyancient DNAancestry
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Blood , pp. 84 - 117
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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