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On the Inheritance and Racial Distribution of Agglutinable Properties of Human Blood

From the Laboratories of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York

Abstract

The studies reported substantiate the view that an agglutinable property of human blood detected by an agglutinin present in certain exceptional human sera ("extra agglutinin 1") is inherited and that its frequency shows a racial difference in the two populations examined. Consequently it must be considered as a constitutional property. The same conclusion seems to hold for other properties of red cells demonstrable by atypical human sera.

Evidence is presented to show that the qualities characterizing the two subgroups of group A are inherited.

The experiments reported were made with the use of some atypical sera containing agglutinins of marked activity.