DETERMINATION OF THE FREQUENCIES OF ABO AND RHESUS PHENOTYPES BLOOD GROUP SYSTEMS IN ALBATAHEEN ETHNIC GROUP

Abstract

One hundred blood samples were collected in EDTA universal containers of unrelated individuals in Albataheen ethnic group from different parts of ،Khartoum stated during the period from 1-5-2005 to 15-7-2005. The ABO and Rhesus phenotypes performed immediately for each sample. The frequencies of ABO and Rh phenotypes were analyzed by SPSS computer program. Blood group O was found to be the most frequent (44%) followed by group A 31% group B 15% and group AB 10%. Respectively. The frequency of Rh blood group system were as follow: Rh antigen D positive was 96%, Rh antigen C positive was 53% Rh antigen c positive was 92% Rh antigen E positive was 18% and Rh antigen e positive was 99%. Phenotypes frequencies in present study were as follow: c De was (31%),CcDe was (40 % ),cDEe was (12%), CDe was ( 7% ), CcDEe was ( 6 %), Ce was ( 4% ) and , c"DE' was (1%).