Remember the old claim that 40 percent of the Imazighen or the Ait Haddidu Berbers in the Atlas mountains of Morocco were supposedly rh negative? I have yet to see any proof to this claim. There have however been studies showing fairly low percentages of rh negatives amongst Berber groups and the latest one is no different: Variation of Rhesus Haplotype Frequencies in North Africans and in Worldwide Population Analyses indicates in Table 2 that the cde gene frequency amongst Moroccan Berbers is somewhere around 0.283, which according to the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium makes the percentage of rh negatives around 8%. There is however something interesting in this study giving validation to Kara Rogers’ claim that the Bedouins of the Sinai … Continue reading New study reveals low percentage of rh negatives amongst Berbers