I have recently posted that Poland has 19.67% rh negatives. Looking at national frequencies is important, but since nations can be quite genetically diverse, looking at regional data has proven to be even more informative. Due to my own ancestry, Silesia has been of great interest to me in terms of where the rh negative blood in my own family might come from.
The following study from 2017 will reveal that Lower Silesia has the highest frequency of rh negative people in all of Poland and also the highest frequency of blood type O. 21.1% rh negatives among women and 19.2% rh negatives among men. This is a huge difference between male and female data which needs to be further examined. Both, rh negative and blood type O frequencies have been decreasing drastically.
It needs to also be noted that men in Lower Silesia have lower type O frequencies with 34.1% compared to women with 34.5%.
In order to properly explain all of the reasons, a lot more information is required such as data on migrations. In an ideal situation, the data would contain information on sexes, ages and blood type frequencies among those leaving the region.
The civilization of Old Europe included Silesia. In the late Bronze Age, the Lusatian culture (in the past, variously speculated to be either ‘pre-Germanic’, Proto-Slavic, Thracian, Karpo-Dacian or Illyrian) covered Silesia. Later, the Scythians and Celts (the tribes of Boii, Gotini and Osi) played a role within the Silesian territory. Still later Germanic tribes migrated to Silesia, possibly from Northern Germany or Scandinavia.
Iron Age Scythians can best be described as a mixture of Yamnaya people, from the Russian Steppe, and East Asian populations, similar to the Han and the Nganasan (a Samoyedic people from northern Siberia).
We have covered the Yamnaya people and their high rh negative frequencies as well as migrations all over Europe here.
Variability in the frequency of ABO and Rh blood groups in Lower Silesia (Poland): the role of natural selection and genetic drift is a large and highly informative study. Data on 158,134 adults (including 113,714 men and 44,420 women) were obtained from two electronic databases containing information about voluntary blood donors.
The study is interesting for several reason:
1) It shows a much higher frequency of rh negatives among women than men.
2) High frequency ranges for ABO and rh factor frequencies. 17.7-24.6% rh- women. 17.4-21.6% rh- men.
3) A regional decline of rh- and blood type O frequencies has been steady.
It will be our task to explain the reasons for this. And hopefully the explanations will shine a light on Silesian ancestry helping determine blood type frequencies in ancient Europe and Western Asia.
Here are some highlights from the study:
Rh negative frequencies have decreased steadily in both, men and women…
… and so have been blood type O frequencies…
… while blood type A has been on the increase.
ABO and rh factor frequencies differ greatly between the regions of Silesia.
Here is a quick video:
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Dear Mike, have you ever considered that the o blood type that is the highest blood type in the world belongs to Japhet one of the 3 sons of Noah, whom had the most children and therefore were given the largest territory for occupation of land, that being, All of Europe and Asia and all of the the northern countries, as suppose to Ham which was in the south, such as the African continent and Shem and his descendants which were allocated the land of the East, Lebanon, Elam, Iran, Syria the whole land of INDIA and the Mesopotamian region. Canaan the son of Ham settled in the land of Canaan which is the territory of the ancient Hebrews, but his not the only one that did not settle in his own lands right from the beginning when the earth’s territory was divided between these 3 brothers. Madai a son of Japhet, married into Shem’s bloodline when he took one of Shem’s daughters for a wife and settled in Media. The capital city of Media was Ecbatana or the present city of Hamadan in Iran. Media was the place where the Medes first lived. Medes were conquered and ruled by the Midianites later on. Then later on they were seen inside the territory of Scythia. They were named Sauro-Matae by the Greeks. The presence of Medes was also seen in Ukraine during the time of Herodotus. Medes were migrants who occupied the north of Thrace. Medes was also associated with Persians through Cyrus the Great because of his mother whose father was a king of Media. The Scythians on the other hand are descendants of the brother of Maida which is Magog, one of the 7 sons of Japhet, and the Thracians came from Tiras another of the 7 sons of Japhet, and brother of Madai, Magog, Tiras, Gomer (who dwell in the land of Franza) his son Tugarma is ancestor to the Angoli and the Balgarians and 8 other families, which settled in the Northern cities. Javan is the ancestor of the Macedonians, Tubal settled in Tuscany and became the ancestor of the Etruscans / Sabines. The children of Chittim became the ancestors of the Romans, which kidnapped and married the Sabine woman. According to the book of Jasher, the daughters of Tubal were the most fair and beautiful in all of the world that all who delighted in the beauty of woman, the sons of men, kings and princes went to the daughters of Tubal and took wives from them. So my point is that all the 7 sons of Japhet which settled in the North, Europe, Asia and even Media and their descendants will share majority of their DNA, as they are all related. My other point is also that majority of the world is of bloodtype O , which i suspect in my own opinion, to be the bloodtype of Japhet and may be the reason why the o blood type is the largest frequency found all over the world. My next point is that all the kings, princes and men all over the world chose wives amongst the daughters of Tubal. Tubal is also believed to be an ancestor of the Basque, but rhesus negative traits are not just found in the Basque territory, it is found amongst the Jewish settlements, such as the Samaritans, and especially Lower Silesia which became the center of the Jewish life in Poland after the war. Fewer than 10,000 Jews live in Poland, a country once known as the center of European Jewish life. On the eve of the Second World War, Poland was home to over three million Jews, making it the second-largest community in the world. This might explain the drastic drop of Rh negative and even 0 blood type in not only Poland but specifically Silesia to date
In one of your posts, you have asked is the Actress Scarlet Johanson one of us? As she has claimed she can make electric items go haywire, a trait that many Rh-Negative people have. She is also left handed. Though I haven’t read of her bloodtype as suppose to which blood type / group she has, be it A, B O or Ab, I have seen a documentary which states she has Jewish Polish ancestors. Food for thought, the blood groups are akin to the 3 sons of Noah, AB is a mixture between a and B blood type, Most of Euope and Asia belonged to the descendants of Japhet in my opinion the O blood group and the Rh neg trait comes from the ancient Hebrew bloodline, as Scripture states the Jews were scattered to the 4 corners of the Earth. Abraham’s descendants are as numerous as the stars. Most Jews settled in poland, Spain, the US after the war, but during the destruction of the 2nd temple they were found all over the world. Perhaps the o blood type found amongst germans, europeans, cythians, thracians asians and Indo Aryans etc are coming from the bloodline of Japhet, the Rh negative trait comes through a specific minority amongst the children of Shem, not all of Shem’s children but one son, called Arpaxshad, the brother of Madai’s wife, and the one of which Abraham and the Israelite tribes descended from.