The Blood Groups of Some Native Inhabitants of the British Solomon Islands

Walsh, R. J.; Kooptzoff, Olga

doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1955.tb00643.x

Oceania

1955

DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1955.tb00643.x

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The Blood Groups of Some Native Inhabitants of the British Solomon Islands

R. J. Walsh¹,

Olga Kooptzoff²

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“…Genetic research is particularly sparse. Although the subject of limited blood group surveys from the 1950s (Blake et al, 1983;Douglas et al, 1962;Walsh and Kooptzoff, 1955) and during the 1980s the focus of a major research initiative led by Jonathan Friedlaender (1987, surprisingly little is known about population genetic structuring among Solomon Island peoples. Blood-group studies class Solomon Island populations with other Melanesian groups in close geographic proximity, but long-term and long-range relationships are more obscure.…”

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Y‐chromosome diversity is inversely associated with language affiliation in paired Austronesian‐ and Papuan‐speaking communities from Solomon Islands

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2005

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The Solomon Islands lie in the center of Island Melanesia, bordered to the north by the Bismarck Archipelago and to the south by Vanuatu. The nation's half-million inhabitants speak around 70 languages from two unrelated language groups: Austronesian, a language family widespread in the Pacific and closely related to languages spoken in Island Southeast Asia, and "East Papuan", generally defined as non-Austronesian and distantly related to the extremely diverse Papuan languages of New Guinea. Despite the archipelago's presumed role as a staging post for the settlement of Remote Oceania, genetic research on Solomon Island populations is sparse. We collected paired samples from two regions that have populations speaking Austronesian and Papuan languages, respectively. Here we present Y-chromosome data from these samples, the first from Solomon Islands. We detected five Y-chromosome lineages: M-M106, O-M175, K-M9*, K-M230, and the extremely rare clade, K1-M177. Y-chromosome lineages from Solomon Islands fall within the range of other Island Melanesian populations but display markedly lower haplogroup diversity. From a broad Indo-Pacific perspective, Y-chromosome lineages show partial association with the distribution of language groups: O-M175 is associated spatially with Austronesian-speaking areas, whereas M-M106 broadly correlates with the distribution of Papuan languages. However, no relationship between Y-chromosome lineages and language affiliation was observed on a small scale within Solomon Islands. This pattern may result from a sampling strategy that targeted small communities, where individual Y-chromosome lineages can be fixed or swept to extinction by genetic drift or favored paternal exogamy.

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Y‐chromosome diversity is inversely associated with language affiliation in paired Austronesian‐ and Papuan‐speaking communities from Solomon Islands

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2005

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Genetic variation in Bougainville and Solomon Islands populations

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Bloom

1982

American J Phys Anthropol

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This paper reports the findings of genetic variation in eight populations of the Solomon Islands. Blood specimens collected from 345 Aita, 191 Nasioi and 416 Nagovisi of Bougainville, 379 Lau, 453 Baegu and 385 Kwaio of Malaita, and 504 Ontong Java, and 328 Ulawa subjects were tested for A-B-O, M-N-S-s, Rh, Hp, Tf, secretor, and red-cell acid phosphatase systems. Considerable differences were found among the eight populations with respect to all polymorphic systems studied. It was not possible to distinguish Austronesian groups from non-Austronesian groups on the basis of gene frequencies.

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Blood Groups of Filipinos

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Kooptzoff²,

Dunn³

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The Blood Groups of Some Native Inhabitants of the British Solomon Islands

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

Y‐chromosome diversity is inversely associated with language affiliation in paired Austronesian‐ and Papuan‐speaking communities from Solomon Islands

Y‐chromosome diversity is inversely associated with language affiliation in paired Austronesian‐ and Papuan‐speaking communities from Solomon Islands

Genetic variation in Bougainville and Solomon Islands populations

Blood Groups of Filipinos

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